ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Aims and scope of journal
• Impact factor
• Abstracted/indexed in
• ISSN and eISSN
• Editors

Aims and scope of journal

Immunology & Cell Biology focuses on the general functioning of the immune system in its broadest sense, with a particular emphasis on its cell biology.

Areas that are covered include but are not limited to:

• Cellular immunology
• Innate and adaptive immunity
• Immune responses to pathogens
• Tumour immunology
• Immunopathology
• Immunotherapy
• Immunogenetics
• Immunological studies in humans and model organisms (including mouse, rat, Drosophila etc)

This leading journal has established an international reputation, built on more than 80 years of innovative publishing. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed Original Articles, Short Communications and Outstanding Observation Articles that describe new research results. Outstanding Observation Articles describe striking reproducible observations that have extremely important conceptual implications but do not necessarily include insights into the underlying molecular mechanism. This manuscript category allows publication of extraordinary findings soon after their discovery. Methodological papers or technical reports of high quality will also be considered for publication as Original Articles or Short Communications. Immunology & Cell Biology also publishes Reviews and News and Commentary articles, which provide succinct summaries of, respectively, an area or a specific research advance in immunology. Landmark articles are brief commentaries which highlight the historical significance of a particular piece of research relevant to the journal's scope. Editorial articles are brief comments written by the editor(s) of the journal or by guest editor(s) of Special Features (see below) based on the contents of the current issue or topical subjects that fall within the scope of the journal. Immunology & Cell Biology occasionally publishes Meeting Reports that briefly detail the discussions, presentations and events at a relevant recent meeting.

News and Commentary and Landmark articles are by invitation only. Reviews can be submitted by authors without invitation but authors are encouraged to submit an abstract of the review to the Editor-in-Chief (christopher.parish@anu.edu.au) to consider for suitability prior to submission of a full article. Submissions of Review articles from outstanding graduate students are also encouraged under the following conditions:

• An abstract of the review should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief (christopher.parish@anu.edu.au) to consider for suitability prior to the submission of a full article
• The supervisor of the student that has most expertise in the area being reviewed must be a participatory co-author on the paper
• The article should encompass a critical assessment of an area: the timeliness of this assessment should be explicitly justified

Immunology & Cell Biology strongly encourages the submission of 'Theoretical' Articles to challenge and provoke discussion in the international scientific community. The Journal also occasionally publishes thematic Special Features which encompass groups of papers that comprehensively cover a specific area in the field. These features are by invitation only, although the Editor-in-Chief christopher.parish@anu.edu.au is receptive to suggested topics.

Impact Factor

2008 Impact Factor: 3.859*

Rank:
28/121 in Immunology
64/157 in Cell Biology

* Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters, 2009

Abstracted/indexed in

Academic Search (EBSCO)
AIDS Information
Australian Medical Index
Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS)
Biomedical Reference (EBSCO)
CAB Abstracts
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
CancerLIT
Cancer Therapy of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract
Chemical Abstracts Service
Current Contents/Life Sciences
Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
Health Source Nursing/Academic (EBSCO)
Journals @ Ovid
PubMed
ProQuest
Reference Update
Research Alert
Science Citation Index
Sociedad Iberoamericana de Información Científica (SIIC) databases

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Immunology & Cell Biology is 0818-9641, and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1440-1711.

Editors

Editor-in-Chief

Chris R Parish, Canberra, Australia

Deputy Editor

Gabrielle Belz, Melbourne, Australia

News and Commentary Editors

Carola Vinuesa, Canberra, Australia
Stuart Tangye, Darlinghurst, Australia

Special Features Editor

Franca Ronchese, Wellington, New Zealand

International Editorial Board

I Aifantis, New York, USA
A Baxter, Townsville, Australia
B Crabb, Melbourne, Australia
RJ De Boer, Utrecht, The Netherlands
M Degli-Esposti, Perth, Australia
P Doherty, Melbourne, Australia
J Fraser, Auckland, New Zealand
D Godfrey, Melbourne, Australia
C Goodnow, Canberra, Australia
P Hodgkin, Melbourne, Australia
AJ Husband, Sydney, Australia
DC Jackson, Melbourne, Australia
SM Kaech, New Haven, USA
A Kelso, Melbourne, Australia
P Lehner, Cambridge, UK
A Lew, Melbourne, Australia
HG Ljunggren, Stockholm, Sweden
R Locksley, San Francisco, USA
F Mackay, Darlinghurst, Australia
M Mamula, New Haven, USA
J McCluskey, Melbourne, Australia
L Morel, Florida, USA
CC Norbury, Hershey, USA
S Patterson, London, UK
AS Perelson, Los Alamos, USA
HG Rammensee, Tübingen, Germany
C Reis e Sousa, London, UK
MS Sandrin, Melbourne, Australia
B Saunders, Newtown, Australia
C Schmidt, Brisbane, Australia
WA Sewell, Darlinghurst, Australia
G Shellam, Perth, Australia
J Sprent, Darlinghurst, Australia
WR Thomas, Perth, Australia
A van der Merwe, Oxford, UK
J Villadangos, Melbourne, Australia
H Warren, Canberra, Australia
W Yokoyama, St. Louis, USA
RM Zinkernagel, Zurich, Switzerland

Editorial Office

Ms Bhama Parish, Editorial Assistant, Canberra, Australia