Overview
Protoplasma specializes in the area between structural and molecular analysis of biological systems from gene expression to the sub- and supracellular levels. The journal offers articles on structural and functional cell biology of plants and animals, protists, fungi as well as prokaryotes.
Coverage includes biogenesis, dynamics, and energetics of membrane compartments; targeting and trafficking of macromolecules; cellular dynamics, intracellular transport, and whole-cell locomotion; structure, dynamics, and molecular components of the cytoskeleton; signaling and regulatory cascades; the cell cycle and cell-to-cell communication; medical aspects of cell biology.
Besides research, rapid communications, and comprehensive review articles, Protoplasma publishes reviews of discoveries, and opportunities at the cutting edge of research under the headings New Ideas in Cell Biology.
- Editors-in-Chief
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- Joern Bullerdiek,
- Peter Nick
- Journal Impact Factor
- 2.5 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 3.1 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 10 days
- Downloads
- 596,367 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Editorial Excellence
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Highly cited articles from 2020
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Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1615-6102
- Print ISSN
- 0033-183X
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- ANVUR
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Current Contents/Life Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Medline
- Meta
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Pathway Studio
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Zoological Record
- Copyright information