About the Journal

Journal Impact Factor from Cite Factor = 0.85 (2020-21)

Atlas Publishing, LLC is proud to announce that Atlas Journal of Biology - AJB has its IPI Value from IP Indexing and an Impact Factor from Cite Factor.

IPI Value = 1.88 - 2019 (IP Indexing)

IBI Factor = 1.5 - 2019 (IB Indexing)

Journal Information & Review Process

Atlas Journal of Biology (ISSN 2158-9151) is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research articles, short communications, and review articles in all fields of Biological Sciences including but not limited to cell biology, developmental biology, plant biology, genetics, genomics, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, and physiology.

Atlas Publishing journals follow an Open Peer-Review process where reviewers are aware of authors identities and affiliations. This is a standard practice by most well know journals and publishers. Each manuscript is uploaded to the Open Journal System (OJS) where the Open Review Process takes place. Briefly, the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) sends the manuscript to at least 2 reviewers, receives comments from reviewers, and takes a decision based on these comments and his own judgement of the overall quality of the manuscript. In OJS, one of the following decisions can be made:

Request Revisions: The EIC summarizes the reviewers’ comments, add his comments, and asks the corresponding author to upload a revised manuscript by a deadline.

Accept the Manuscript: The manuscript is accepted as is without revisions; however, this is extremely rare and never happened yet!

Decline the Manuscript: The manuscript is of poor quality, not suitable for publication, and is rejected.

The corresponding author is informed of any decision about the manuscript.

Atlas Journal of Biology charges $314.99 per manuscript published. There is no charge for submitting a manuscript to any Atlas Publishing, LLC journal.

Atlas Journal of Biology is now indexed in the following databases:

“All articles in Atlas journals are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited”. The copyright is held by the authors.

Aims and Scope

Atlas Journal of Biology accepts original research articles, short communications, and review articles in all fields of Biological and Medical Sciences including but not limited to cell biology, developmental biology, plant biology, genetics, genomics, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, physiology, and all fields of medical and biomedical sciences.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Atlas Publishing, LLC follows high standards of ethics in all its publishing materials: journal articles and books. The publisher, editors, and authors, are responsible to implement and enforce these high standards of ethics (http://www.publicationethics.org).

Publication Decision

The ultimate responsibility to publish an article or reject it lies on the shoulder of the journal editor. After receiving review reports from the peer-reviewers, the editor takes a decision to publish or reject the article. He/she may also consult with other editors and/or reviewers to take this decision.

Confidentiality

Information contained in the submitted manuscript must not be disclosed by the editor or the editorial staff to any parties other than the reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher.

Fair Play

All Atlas Publishing, LLC’s editors must evaluate manuscripts based on the merit of their contribution to the field of study and intellectual content with no consideration of the authors’ race, religion, gender, political views, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or citizenship.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

The editors are not allowed to use materials in a submitted manuscript in their research without a written consent from the authors.

1. Reviewers’ Duties

Peer reviews review manuscripts and submit their review reports to the editor. These reviewers’ reports assist the authors to improve their manuscripts and the editor to take an editorial decision about the manuscript. If a reviewer is unable to review a manuscript for any reason, he/she should refrain from reviewing the manuscript and inform the editor.

a. Confidentiality

All manuscripts received by the editor must be treated as confidential documents and not shown or discussed with others unless the editor authorizes it.

b. Standards of Objectivity

Reviewers should be objective in their reviews, leave apart any personal criticism of the author or his/her research group, and support their views with clearly stated arguments.

c. Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should strive to identify any uncited published works by the authors and report it to the editor. Reviewers should also report any similarities between the manuscript under review and any other published work they might know of.

d. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Reviewers should keep confidential all information and ideas obtained from the manuscript they are reviewing and must not use them for their personal advantage. They also should not review a manuscript with any apparent conflict of interest.

2. Authors Duties

a. Reporting Standards

Authors are responsible to submit original research findings that are accurate with an objective discussion of their significance to the field or discipline of study. It is unethical and unacceptable to knowingly report fraudulent and inaccurate statements in any submitted manuscript to any journal published by Atlas Publishing, LLC.

b. Data Access and Retention

Atlas Publishing, LLC or the journal’s editor may ask the authors to provide the raw data of their manuscript for review purposes and to be accessible as practiced by several prominent publishers such as the Public Library of Science (PLoS; www.plos.org) and the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (http://www.stm-assoc.org). They also should keep this data for at least 5 years after publication.

c. Originality and Plagiarism

By submitting the article, all the authors attest firmly that:

  1. They read the manuscript
  2. Agreed on its final form
  3. It is their original work
  4. Has not been published or submitted to another journal
  5. The manuscript is free of any plagiarism
  6. The manuscript does not contain materials copyrighted by another person or entity
  7. The manuscript does not infringe others copyright or other rights

All articles are checked for plagiarism before publication.

d. Acknowledgement of Sources

Authors must cite all publications used to determine the nature of their submitted manuscript.

e. Authorship of the Paper

Authors are those who made a significant contribution to the submitted study during its design, conception, execution, and interpretation and it is the responsibility of the corresponding author to insure that all authors contributed to the study.

f. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All financial and substantive conflict of interest should be disclosed by all authors of the manuscript. Authors should also disclose all sources of financial support for the submitted manuscript.

g. Fundamental Errors in Published Works

If errors or inaccuracies are discovered in a manuscript by an author, he/she is responsible to report them to the publisher or the editor and be engaged in the process of retracting or correcting the manuscript.