Biology of the Cell is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 in the field of cell biology

Cell biology

Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...

, cell physiology

Cell physiology

Cell physiology is the biological study of the cell's mechanism and interaction in its environment. The term "physiology" refers to all the normal functions that take place in a living organism. Absorption of water by roots, production of food in the leaves, and growth of shoots towards light are...

, and molecular biology

Molecular biology

Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

 of animal and plant cells, microorganism

Microorganism

A microorganism or microbe is a microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters, or no cell at all...

s and protist

Protist

Protists are a diverse group of eukaryotic microorganisms. Historically, protists were treated as the kingdom Protista, which includes mostly unicellular organisms that do not fit into the other kingdoms, but this group is contested in modern taxonomy...

s. Topics covered include development

Morphogenesis

Morphogenesis , is the biological process that causes an organism to develop its shape...

, neurobiology, and immunology

Immunology

Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...

, as well as theoretical or biophysical

Biophysics

Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that uses the methods of physical science to study biological systems. Studies included under the branches of biophysics span all levels of biological organization, from the molecular scale to whole organisms and ecosystems...

 modelling.

The journal is currently published monthly by the Biochemical Society

Biochemical Society

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 on behalf of the Société Française des Microscopies and the Société de Biologie Cellulaire de France.

History

The journal first appeared in 1962 and was originally titled Journal de Microscopie (1962–1974). In 1975, the related Journal de Microscopie et de Spectroscopie Électroniques was started and the journal was retitled Journal de Microscopie et de Biologie Cellulaire . It was later retitled Biologie Cellulaire , becoming Biology of the Cell in 1981. The journal was published by Elsevier

Elsevier

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 between 1986 and 2004.

Articles were originally published in either English or French, with summaries in both languages.

Modern journal

Content from 1988 is available online in PDF

Portable Document Format

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 format, with papers from 2005 also being available in HTML

HTML

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, and from 2006 in an enhanced full-text format. Papers are currently available free 12 months after print publication.

The journal's 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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 was 3.752. Biology of the Cell is indexed by BIOBASE

BIOBASE

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, BIOSIS, CAB International

CAB International

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, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Service

Chemical Abstracts Service

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, Current Contents

Current Contents

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/Life Sciences, EMBASE

EMBASE

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/Excerpta Medica

Excerpta Medica

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, MEDLINE

MEDLINE

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/Index Medicus

Index medicus

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, and ProQuest Information and Learning

ProQuest

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As of 2007, its editor-in-chief is H. Beverley Osborne (University of Rennes 1

University of Rennes 1

The University of Rennes 1 is one of the two main universities in the city of Rennes, France. It is under the Academy of Rennes. It specializes in science, technology, law, economy, management and philosophy. The University of Rennes 1 has been in existence since 1969, but its heritage stems back...

).

External links

• Biology of the Cell home page
• Société Française des Microscopies
• Société de Biologie Cellulaire de France