Aims & Scope
Letters in Biomathematics is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes mathematics and statistics research related to biological, ecological, medical, and environmental settings in a very broad sense, as well as from related fields. The journal lies at the intersection of mathematics, statistics, biology, ecology, and the life sciences and welcomes articles to appear in a Research, Education, or Review section. One volume is published per year.
Topics covered by the journal include, but are not limited to the following:
- Systems Biology
- Mathematics and Statistics of
- biology,
- life sciences,
- medicine,
- and other related disciplines
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Computational Biology
- Clinical Statistics
- Dynamical Systems
- Education research in biomathematics, biostatistics, and related disciplines
- Environmental Sciences
- Epidemiology
- Evolutionary Biology/Ecology
- Mathematical Biophysics
- Population Modeling
- Computing-intensive Modeling
- Evolutionary computing algorithms
- Simulation and Modeling
Sections
Letters in Biomathematics welcomes Research, Education, and Review articles. Proposals for special issues are encouraged and should be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief.
Biomathematics Research
This section publishes high-quality articles of novel, as well as established, mathematical and statistical approaches to biological hypotheses. Manuscripts should employ an interdisciplinary approach and should be of interest to a wide spectrum of scientists from related fields. Research from all sub-disciplines within the life sciences and sub-disciplines within mathematics and statistics are considered.
Biomathematics Education
This section publishes high-quality articles on the study of teaching and learning at the intersection of mathematics and biology. Manuscripts that address topics in undergraduate biomathematics education, including those that describe novel methods of design and implementation of innovative pedagogies, curricula, use of technology, and mechanisms of mentoring research are welcome. Manuscripts should contain either significant data and analysis to support the narrative or introduce novel tools or approaches for presentation of content. Also welcome are studies with a focus on improving the learning and motivation of biology students in mathematics and mathematics students in biology.
Biomathematics Review
This section publishes high-quality articles that describe particular areas of mathematical biology research or education in novel ways. Review manuscripts should consist of a critical and constructive analysis of the literature in a specific field with the intent of helping to organize and evaluate the existing literature and provide insight into how recent literature is reshaping research in the area. It is also appropriate to include mention of software or instrumentation that is relevant to current research.
Open Access
Letters in Biomathematics is an open-access online journal. As with all open-access journals, accepted manuscripts incur an article processing charge (APC). The standard APC is $400 USD.
The Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance (IBA) sponsors the Letters in Biomathematics for its members. Both institutional and individual members of the IBA receive publishing privileges at a reduced APC.
Peer Review
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind.
Copyright
When you publish in Letters in Biomathematics, you will retain the copyright in your work. We will ask you to sign an author contract which gives us the non-exclusive right to publish the Version of Record of your article. This author contract incorporates the Creative Commons license of your choice, which will dictate what others can do with your article once it has been published.
Attribution (CC BY)
Others can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.
Attribution-Non-commercial (CC BY-NC)
Others can remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Attribution-Non-commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)
Others can download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
Please visit the Creative Commons website for more details about licenses.
Publishing Ethics
Letters in Biomathematics adheres to the highest standards of publishing ethics, with rigorous processes in place to ensure this is achieved. The journal follows the ethics guidelines of the Committee of Publications Ethics. For more information on ethics guidelines, please visit the Ethics Guidelines page.