Acta Biotheoretica

Acta Biotheoretica: Mathematical and philosophical foundations of biological and biomedical science is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is the official journal of the Jan van der Hoeven Society for Theoretical Biology. The editor-in-chief is F.J.A. Jacobs (Leiden University).

Acta Biotheoretica

Discipline	Theoretical biology
Language	English
Edited by	F.J.A. Jacobs
Publication details
History	1935–present
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.185 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Acta Biotheor.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	ABIOAN
ISSN	0001-5342 (print) 1572-8358 (web)
LCCN	38011617
OCLC no.	41558734
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Aims and scope

The journal's focus is theoretical biology which includes mathematical representation, treatment, and modeling for simulations and quantitative descriptions. The journal's focus also includes the philosophy of biology which emphasizes looking at the methods developed to form biological theory. Topical coverage also includes biomathematics, computational biology, genetics, ecology, and morphology.

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews
• Science Citation Index
• The Zoological Record
• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
• Elsevier BIOBASE
• EMBASE
• EMBiology
• GEOBASE
• Chemical Abstracts Service
• CAB Abstracts
• Global Health
• Academic OneFile
• Astrophysics Data System
• Current Index to Statistics
• International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements
• INIS - Atomindex
• MEDLINE
• Scopus
• The Philosopher's Index

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.185.^[1] According to the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), the journal h-index is 35.^[2]

References

1. "Acta Biotheoretica". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2022.
2. "Acta Biotheoretica". www.scimagojr.com. Retrieved 2022-05-30.

Further reading

• Reydon, Thomas A. C.; Dullemeijer, Piet; Hemerik, Lia (2005). "The History of Acta Biotheoretica and the Nature of Theoretical Biology". In Reydon, Thomas A.C.; Hemerik, Lia (eds.). Current Themes in Theoretical Biology: A Dutch Perspective. Springer Netherlands. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1007/1-4020-2904-7_1. ISBN 978-1-4020-2901-1. OCLC 209840350.

External links

• Official website