Biophysical Reviews : a Q1 ranked journal in biophysics and structural biology
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EDITORIAL
Biophysical Reviews: a Q1 ranked journal in biophysics and structural biology Damien Hall 1 Accepted: 18 September 2020 / Published online: 29 September 2020 # International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract This Editorial for Biophysical Reviews (Volume 12, Issue 5) begins with a description of the two feature articles. The first being the latest in the “Meet the Editors Series” describing Rosangela Itri—the Biophysical Reviews Executive Editor responsible for the South American region. The second feature article is by Alexandra Zidovska, the inaugural winner of the 2020 “Michèle Auger Award for Young Scientists’ Independent Research.” Next highlighted are the Issue contents, which consist of five Commentaries/Letters and eleven Reviews. Finally, we conclude with a description of Biophysical Reviews’ ascension within the world’s major journal rankings index (Elsevier, Scimago)—becoming 12th overall (out of 156) within the biophysics category and receiving the coveted Q1 rating in both biophysics and structural biology sections.
Due to the emergence of COVID-19, 2020 will undoubtedly be remembered as an annus horribilis by many, if not all. Despite the difficulties imposed by the pandemic, 2020 has, nevertheless, turned out to be an exceedingly productive year for Biophysical Reviews.1 To date, the journal has published two Special Issues (Komatsuzaki et al. 2020; dos Remedios 20202) and two regular Issues (Hall 2020a, c). In addition to receiving an increased number of submissions (both invited and unsolicited), the journal has also undertaken a number of special initiatives in 2020. One such initiative is the “Meet the Editors Series”. This series has so far provided interesting insights into both the human and scientific sides of the journal’s senior group of Executive Editors (Olson 2020; Nagayama 2020; Jagannathan 2020; Ho 2020). This Issue’s first article (Itri 2020) extends this grouping, with a short scientific autobiography of the Executive Editor for South America—Prof. Rosangela Itri. A specialist in solution scattering, Rosangela is Professor within the Institute for Physics at Sao Paolo University and a core member of the growing Brazilian synchrotron facility. As described (Itri 2020), 1
For which we would like to acknowledge the steadfast efforts our professional staff along with the diligence of the journal’s Editorial Board and academic reviewers.
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For the description of the Issue contents, see Hall et al. 2020 and Hall 2020b.
* Damien Hall [email protected]; [email protected] 1
Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso Showa, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8555, Japan
Rosangela’s main topic of research is the study of protein– membrane interactions using the small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) technique. What can also be garnered from this piece is Rosangela’s sustained commitment to the international promotion of biophysics as a necessary and importan
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