Biology of the Cell

This article is about the academic journal. For the field of biology, see cell biology.

Biology of the Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of cell biology, cell physiology, and molecular biology of animal and plant cells, microorganisms and protists. Topics covered include development, neurobiology, and immunology, as well as theoretical or biophysical modelling.

Biology of the Cell

Discipline	Cell biology
Language	English
Edited by	René-Marc Mège
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal de Microscopie (1962–1974); Journal de Microscopie et de Biologie Cellulaire (1975–1976); Biologie Cellulaire (1977–1980); Biology of the Cell (1981–present)
History	1962–present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Société Française des Microscopies and the Société de Biologie Cellulaire de France
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	After 12 months
Impact factor	3.506 (2009)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Biol. Cell
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0248-4900 (print) 1768-322X (web)
Links
Journal homepage

The journal is currently published monthly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Société Française des Microscopies and the Société de Biologie Cellulaire de France.^[1]

History

The journal first appeared in 1962 and was originally titled Journal de Microscopie (1962–1974). In 1975 the journal was retitled Journal de Microscopie et de Biologie Cellulaire (ISSN 0395-9260; 1975–1976).^[2] It was later retitled Biologie Cellulaire (ISSN 0399-0311; 1977–1980), becoming Biology of the Cell in 1981.^[3][4]

Articles were originally published in either English or French, with summaries in both languages.^[5]

Modern journal

Content from 1988 is available online in PDF format, with papers from 2005 also being available in HTML, and from 2006 in an enhanced full-text format.

The journal's 2014 impact factor was 3.506.^[6] Biology of the Cell is indexed by BIOBASE, BIOSIS, CAB International, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Service, Current Contents/Life Sciences, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, MEDLINE/Index Medicus, and ProQuest Information and Learning

Articles are primarily research and reviews. Themed series on specific topics are scheduled. They were: Stem Cells (2005), RNA localization (2005), Aquaporins (2005), Synapses (2007), Cell Cycle and Cancer (2008), Microtubules, RNA regulation (2008), Microbiology and Cell Biology (2010), Cilia (2011), Endoplasmic Reticulum (2012), Epigenetics (2012), Post-Translational Modification and Virus Intracellular Trafficking (2012), Optogenetics (2014), Microvesicles and Exosomes (2015), Systems Cell Biology (2015), Translating Canceromics into function (2015).

The editor-in-chief of this journal is René-Marc Mège, a team leader at the Institut Jacques Monod. He was preceded by Thierry Galli (INSERM) who was editor from 2009 - 2017.^[7]

Osborne HB. (2005) What's new for Biology of the Cell in 2005? (Editorial) Biol Cell 97: 1–2== References ==

1. Osborne HB. (2005) What's new for Biology of the Cell in 2005? (Editorial) Biol Cell 97: 1–2 (accessed 23 October 2007)
2. JournalSeek: Journal de Microscopie et de Biologie Cellulaire (accessed 23 October 2007)
3. NCBI Journals: Biologie cellulaire (accessed 23 October 2007)
4. Institut André Lwoff: Library's Catalog Archived January 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (accessed 23 October 2007)
5. NLM: LocatorPlus: Journal de microscopie Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 24 October 2007)
6. Biology of the Cell index page Archived 2007-11-02 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 30 December 2010)
7. Mège, RM (2017). "Why would you like to publish in Biology of the Cell". Biology of the Cell. 109 (3): 113–114. doi:10.1111/boc.201770010. PMID 28248426.

External links

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