
Theory in Biosciences focuses on new concepts in theoretical biology. It also includes analytical and modelling approaches as well as philosophical and historical issues. Central topics are:
- Artificial Life
- Bioinformatics with a focus on novel methods, phenomena, and interpretations
- Bioinspired Modeling
- Complexity
- Embodied Cognition
- Evolutionary Biology
- Evo-Devo
- Game Theoretic Modeling
- Genetics
- History of Biology
- Language Evolution
- Mathematical Biology
- Philosophy of Biology
- Population Biology
- Theoretical Ecology
- Theoretical Molecular Biology
- Theoretical Neuroscience & Cognition
The journal receives a large number of submissions which analyse a biologically motivated system of coupled ordinary differential equations, often with emphasis on stability and sensitivity of solutions and with rather standard tools from dynamical systems theory. Such articles will usually be considered out of scope, if they do not convincingly demonstrate the additional value within the general conceptual profile of the journal.
While not all models of interest to the journal are necessarily phrased in mathematical terms, those that are should be analyzed by rigorous methods.
Manuscripts should present original work with a strong conceptual background.
- Focuses on new concepts in theoretical biology.
- Deals with analytical and modeling approaches as well as the biophilosophy and history of ideas.
Journal information
- Editors-in-Chief
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- Jürgen Jost,
- Nihat Ay,
- Manfred Laubichler,
- Peter F. Stadler
- Publishing model
- Hybrid (Transformative Journal). Learn about publishing Open Access with us
Journal metrics
- 1.303 (2019)
- Impact factor
- 1.468 (2019)
- Five year impact factor
- 114 days
- Submission to first decision
- 255 days
- Submission to acceptance
- 108,209 (2020)
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COVID-19 and impact on peer review
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Special Issue
This Special Issue “Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919): The German Darwin and his impact on modern biology” is published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Haeckel’s death on 9 August 2019.
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About this journal
- Electronic ISSN
- 1611-7530
- Print ISSN
- 1431-7613
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- ANVUR
- BIOSIS
- Biological Abstracts
- CNKI
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Current Contents/ Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- DBLP
- Dimensions
- EBSCO Academic Search
- EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- EBSCO STM Source
- EMBiology
- Elsevier Biobase
- Google Scholar
- Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
- Medline
- Meta
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- ProQuest Biological Science Database
- ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Natural Science Collection
- ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection
- ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
- ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Zoological Record
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