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ISSN: 1756-2392
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Bioscience Hypotheses' aim is to stimulate innovation. To that end, we choose work that we believe is interesting and challenging,
and provides a clear and coherent argument with a testable conclusion. Bioscience Hypotheses is a general journal and articles need to
be intelligible to a ... click here for full Aims & Scope
Bioscience Hypotheses' aim is to stimulate innovation. To that end, we choose work that we believe is interesting and challenging,
and provides a clear and coherent argument with a testable conclusion. Bioscience Hypotheses is a general journal and articles need to
be intelligible to a wide audience in the life sciences, including those who may not be specialists in the field. Clear and concise presentation
are very important.
Bioscience Hypotheses selects papers by editorial review rather than peer review. The editor's role
is as a "chooser" of the best ideas to publish, not a "changer". The Editor sometimes uses external referees to inform his opinion on
a paper, but their role is as an information source and the Editor's choice is final.
Our four requirements are:
• that
papers provide new insight into the understanding or application of biology that could be of interest to a wide life science readership.
• that the paper is clear, coherent, and that the argument it lays out is easy to follow.
• that it is not incompatible
with known fact (although it may contest the interpretation of those facts), or, if you think the 'facts' are wrong, explains why you
think that.
• that the authors provide an interpretation, hypothesis or solution that is testable.
Papers that do not provide
at least the outline of how the authors might test their conclusions, or differentiating their conclusion from other explanations, will
be rejected. Papers that provide some preliminary data (itself perhaps not sufficiently robust to be published as an independent paper,
but nevertheless rigorously collected) will be welcomed, but preliminary data is not a requirement for publication, and Bioscience
Hypotheses is not a forum the publication of new experimental results unless they are supporting a broader theoretical structure.
The journal explicitly does not publish papers addressing solutions to medical problems. Our sister journal Medical Hypotheses
is the appropriate forum for these.
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William Bains
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