Journal of Biosciences and Bioengineering

JOBB publishes original research and reviews on living systems and their uses. Most of its papers so far deal with genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics (for example, the proteins and gene activity of horse milk), with plant biotechnology and plant chemistry (recombinant proteins made in plants, phenolic compounds in Astragalus leaves), and with environmental biosciences (environmental ethics, and how climate change may shift mammal habitats).

It is written for molecular biologists, biotechnologists, plant scientists, bioinformaticians and ecologists, and for the graduate students who work with them. If your work concerns genomic data infrastructure, proteins made in transgenic plants, natural compounds in medicinal plants or species distribution under future climates, you will find related papers already in the journal.

The short title is JOBB; the online edition carries ISSN 2836-2535 and is published by Directive Publications. The title uses the plural "Biosciences" and the word "and", so quoting it exactly, together with the ISSN, keeps a citation pointing to this journal.

Not yet. The journal has no Journal Impact Factor to its name so far. A number shown next to a search for a bioscience-and-bioengineering title usually belongs to another journal whose name differs by a letter or a word, so make sure the ISSN reads 2836-2535 before relying on it.

Yes. Manuscripts that JOBB sends out are reviewed double-blind, so authors prepare a separate title page and an anonymised main file. Reviewers do not see who wrote the paper, and authors do not see who reviewed it. Fee matters are handled apart from the review, so editors and reviewers judge the work without knowing whether its authors will pay the article-processing charge or have asked for a waiver.

Yes. Readers reach the full text and PDF of every JOBB paper on directivepublications.org without subscribing, creating an account or paying to read. Papers carry the CC BY 4.0 licence: their authors keep the copyright, and anyone may copy, adapt or re-analyse the work provided the original article is cited.

JOBB charges nothing at submission or while a paper is under review. Its article-processing charge (APC) becomes payable only after formal acceptance, and the figure displayed when you submit is the one you will pay; if the paper is declined, you pay nothing. Labs and students who cannot cover the charge may ask for a waiver or discount before or when they submit, as set out on the Publication Charges and Fee Waivers pages.

Start with the Author Guidelines, then send the manuscript through the online form on directivepublications.org with this journal selected. They ask for a structured abstract, numbered Vancouver references and a Data Availability Statement (for sequencing or proteomics data, a public repository and an accession number), and they encourage an ORCID iD for each author. Animal experiments, such as a diabetic mouse model, need institutional animal-welfare approval and the ARRIVE checklist, and systematic reviews need PRISMA.

Yes. Alongside original research, JOBB has published reviews and overviews, among them a review of molecular pharming, the production of recombinant proteins in transgenic plants, and an overview of the need for environmental ethics. A review carries the same structured abstract of 200 to 250 words as a research article, and a systematic review or meta-analysis is reported to the PRISMA checklist.

Compare any website, invitation or reference with the identity shown on this page: the ISSN 2836-2535 and the publisher, Directive Publications. One that gives a different ISSN or publisher for a journal of this name does not refer to this journal.

No. Journal of Biosciences and Bioengineering (JOBB, ISSN 2836-2535) is published by Directive Publications and has no connection with any other journal whose title pairs "bioscience" or "biosciences" with "bioengineering", or that otherwise sounds similar. Titles in this field can differ by a single letter, so compare the ISSN and the publisher whenever a search result, a citation or an email names a journal like ours.

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) sets the guidance JOBB applies when questions of authorship, competing interests or data integrity arise, and when a paper needs a correction or a retraction. All submissions go through similarity screening, and AI tools cannot be named as authors; any use of them in the research or writing must be disclosed.