Benefits of publishing in Biology of the Cell

• Independent and fair review process
  • each paper seen by two independent reviewers selected by our PhD-level staff

• Fast review
  • 4 weeks for Research Articles
  • 5 weeks for Reviews and Scientiae Forum articles

• Comprehensive reviewer reports
  • constructive and thorough comments

• Fast time to publication
  • PDFs of manuscripts on the Web on the day of acceptance
  • 14 weeks to online issue (16 weeks to print issue)

• Free colour figures

• International Editorial Board

• Rising Impact Factor: 4.3*

• Long Cited Half-Life: 5.9 years*

• High international visibility
  • electronic table of contents with links to papers distributed widely
  • articles extensively downloaded and cited

• No submission fees or page charges

• Commitment to quality
  • highly trained staff oversee the editorial and production processes for your paper

• Multi-media and online data
  • enhance your paper with video clips, PDB structures and supplementary data

• Copyright and licence to publish
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  • our licence to publish allows you to deposit your accepted manuscript (Stage 2a post-print) in an institutional repository 6 months after it appears in print and on PubMed Central 12 months after it appeares in print

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  • pre-paid articles are posted on PubMed Central and inclusion on its mirror sites is permitted
  • final authoritative version of record may be posted on author or institutional websites or to free public servers

• Reference linking
  • extensive reference linking to PubMed
  • CrossRef services

• Indexing and abstracting
  • included in all the major indexing and abstracting services

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