BioDesign Research
Last updated ISSN 2693-1257
BioDesign Research is published by American Association for the Advancement of Science in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,500.
Is your paper a fit?
The surest way to know is to compare your own abstract against what this journal has actually been publishing, rather than against its aims-and-scope page. Paste your abstract and Journal Hunt will tell you how close BioDesign Research is — and show you journals like it.
What it publishes
Recent work in BioDesign Research concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Transgenic Plants and Applications
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Key facts
| Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2693-1257 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,500 |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 147 |
| Publishing since | 1980 |
| Journal website | spj.sciencemag.org/bdr/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
Journals like BioDesign Research
Other established journals in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, if this one is not the right home for your paper:

