Focus and Scope

Acta Biochimica Iranica (ABI), as the official publication of the Iranian Society of Biochemistry, is quarterly published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). Acta Biochimica Iranica is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes high-quality research in all fields of Biochemistry and Molecular Biosciences. The journal’s mission is to disseminate new knowledge on the biochemical basis of health and disease, from fundamental molecular mechanisms to clinical applications. Areas covered include, but are not limited to: clinical and diagnostic biochemistry, molecular and structural biology, enzymology, proteomics, metabolomics, genomics, biochemical pharmacology, bioinformatics, biochemical genetics, biotechnology and biomarker discovery. The journal welcomes original research articles, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, short communications, and methodological papers.

 Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

All journal papers are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source.

Article Processing Charges

As Tehran University of Medical Sciences is supporting most of the publishing costs of Acta Biochimica Iranica, article processing charge and any other publication fees in the journal are free for authors.

Copyright Notice

Authors have copyright but license exclusive rights in their article to the publisher*.

Authors have the right to:

  • Share their article according to the "Personal Use rights"** so long as it contains the end user license and the DOI link to the version of record in this journal.
  • Retain intellectual property rights (including research data).
  • Proper attribution and credit for the published work.

* This includes the right to make and authorize commercial use.
** Personal use rights

Authors can use their articles, in full or in part, for scholarly, non-commercial purposes such as:

  • Use by an author in the author’s classroom teaching (including distribution of copies, paper or electronic)
  • Distribution of copies (including through e-mail) to known research colleagues for their personal use (but not for Commercial Use)
  • Inclusion in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially)
  • Use in a subsequent compilation of the author’s works
  • Extending the Article to book-length form
  • Preparation of other derivative works (but not for Commercial Use)
  • Otherwise using or re-using portions or excerpts in other works

Subscription

Acta Biochimica Iranica is published as an open access electronic journal, so there is no subscription fee for audiences.

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