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A new forum for agenda-setting research with global visibility
Led by Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo), RSC Chemical Biology is a gold open access journal, dedicated to publishing exceptionally significant and breakthrough findings of interest to the chemical biology community.
As a gold open access journal, there are no barriers to accessing content. Your research reaches an international audience, and with article processing charges waived until mid-2022, it’s completely free to publish.
“I’m very excited to take on the role of Chair of the Editorial Board of RSC Chemical Biology which will be launched in 2020. This new journal will publish important research sparked at the interface of chemistry and biology. I’d encourage colleagues to submit their high quality work from basic to translational research to RSC Chemical Biology.”
Hiroaki Suga, Editorial Board Chair, RSC Chemical Biology.

Cutting-edge
At the forefront of agenda-setting research in chemical biology, with an innovative, transparent peer review process
Visible
A gold open access journal, giving your work maximum visibility and reaching a global readership. APCs are waived until mid-2022
Trusted
Led by an editorial board of leading scientists, and published by a society committed to the wide dissemination of quality knowledge
Scope
RSC Chemical Biology is a gold open access journal dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough research and high quality reviews at the interface of chemistry and biology. All published articles must be of significant general interest to the broad chemical biology community.
We welcome contributions from across the breadth of chemical biology, from the development of new chemical and biological techniques and tools, to studies furthering the understanding and/or manipulation of biological processes at the molecular level. We also encourage translational research that bridges chemistry and chemical biology to medicine.
Transparent peer review policy
To support increased transparency, we offer authors the option to publish the peer review history alongside their article. Reviewers are anonymous unless they choose to sign their report.
Find out more about our transparent peer review policy.
Editorial Board Chair The University of Tokyo, Japan
Associate Editor University of Cambridge, UK and IMM, Portugal
Associate Editor University of Würzburg, Germany
Associate Editor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Associate Editor Seoul National University, South Korea
Associate Editor University of Münster, Germany
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Associate Editor Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Associate Editor Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, China
Editorial board member University of California, San Francisco, USA
Editorial board member Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Editorial board member University of Southampton, UK
Christopher Chang, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Russell Cox, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Dorothea Fiedler, FMP Berlin, Germany
Christian Hackenberger, FMP Berlin, Germany
Maja Köhn, University of Freiburg, Germany
Yamuna Krishnan, University of Chicago, USA
Elizabeth Nolan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Jennifer Prescher, University of California, Irvine, USA
Christopher Schofield, University of Oxford, UK
Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School, USA
Kira Weissman, University of Lorraine, France
Anna Rulka, Executive Editor ORCID 0000-0002-3236-9801
Kathryn Gempf, Deputy Editor ORCID 0000-0001-7595-0623
Laura Daly, Development Editor ORCID 0000-0002-0980-2611
Elizabeth So, Editorial Assistant
Anna Meehan, Editorial Production Manager
Jamie Purcell, Publishing Editor
Laura Smith, Publishing Editor
Ellis Wilde, Publishing Editor
David Bishop, Publishing Assistant
Neil Hammond, Publisher
Open access
There are no submission charges for RSC Chemical Biology, and no article processing charges until mid-2022. As part of the submission process, authors will be asked to agree to the RSC Chemical Biology open access terms & conditions.
We offer RSC Chemical Biology authors a choice of two Creative Commons licences: CC BY or CC BY NC. Publication under these licences means that authors retain copyright of their article, but users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Read our open access statement for further information.
All published articles are deposited with LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico and the British Library for archiving.
Peer Review and Editorial Process
RSC Chemical Biology strives for a rigorous, fair and rapid peer review procedure. On submission to the journal, manuscripts undergo an initial assessment by a team of professional editors to ensure they meet essential criteria for publication in the journal; those manuscripts which are successful in this review are passed to an associate editor for further consideration.
RSC Chemical Biology follows a single-blind peer review process, with manuscripts handled by a team of internationally recognised associate editors, all practising scientists in the field. It consists of the following stages:
- Phase 1: Your manuscript is initially assessed by an associate editor.
- Phase 2: The associate editor solicits the expertise of at least two reviewers to assess your article and submit a report.
- Phase 3: The associate editor handling your manuscript makes a decision based on the reviewer reports received. In the event that no clear decision can be made, another reviewer will be consulted.
Please refer to our processes and policies for full details including our appeals procedure.
Subscription information
RSC Chemical Biology is fully gold open access – articles can be downloaded free from the website with no barriers to access.
Online only: ISSN 2633-0679
Copyright
Copyright is retained by authors when an open access licence is accepted, as with our standard licence to publish agreement. Full and accurate attribution to the original author is required for any re-use of the work. Find out more about copyright, licences and re-use permission.
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