International Journal of Biotechnology
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Tomas Gabriel Bas
- ISSN online
- 1741-5020
- ISSN print
- 0963-6048
- 4 issues per year
IJBT provides an international forum and refereed authoritative source of information in the field of Biotechnology and Biotechnics, with emphasis on management and economics, as well as the political and social issues. It aims to disseminate knowledge, provide a learned reference in the field, and establish channels of communication between academic and research experts, policy makers and executives in industry, commerce and investment institutions.
Topics covered include
- Biotechnology in food
- Biotechnology in healthcare
- Biotechnology in environment
- Biotechnology in agriculture
- Biotechnology in diagnostics
- Biotechnology in therapeutics
- Biotechnology in cosmetics
- Innovation in biotechnology and bio-ethics
- Partnerships, networks and joint ventures
- Biotechnology in the developed and developing world
- Management and economics of biotechnology
- Political and social issues
Objectives
The main objective of IJBT is to promote policy-oriented research in the field of biotechnology (covering medicine, agriculture, industry and allied fields). It also seeks to advance the field of biotechnology policy through information dissemination and research networking. IJBT emphasises international dimensions of biotechnology policy. It helps to identify ways by which biotechnology can be harnessed to contribute to economic development, global competitiveness and environmental management. IJBT publishes policy-oriented research papers as well as state-of-the-art reviews
Readership
Professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers
Contents
IJBT publishes original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, and notes, commentaries, and news. Contribution may be by submission or invitation, and suggestions for special issues and publications are welcome.
IJBT is indexed in:
- Compendex [formerly Ei] (Elsevier)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (Elsevier)
- BIOSIS (Clarivate Analytics)
- CAB Abstracts - Agriculture and International Development Indexes
- CAB Animal Sciences
- CAB Abstracts - Environmental Sciences Indexes
- CAB Abstracts - Human Sciences Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts - Plant Sciences Abstracts
- CEABA-VtB [Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Abstracts] (Dechema)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- Embase (Elsevier)
- Environment Complete (EBSCO)
- Environment Index (EBSCO)
- Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (Gale)
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- OneFile Business (Gale)
- General OneFile (Gale)
- Geobase (Elsevier)
- CAB Global Health
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- J-Gate
- Pascal (INIST-CNRS)
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
- ProQuest ABI/Inform Collection
- ProQuest Biological Science Collection
IJBT is listed in:
- National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR)
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Editor in Chief
- Bas, Tomas Gabriel, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
(tomas.basucn.cl)
Editor
- Mangeaud, Arnaldo, National University of Córdoba, Argentina
Associate Editor
- Gaisser, Sibylle, Hochschule Ansbach, Germany
Editorial Board Members
- Adeoti, John O., Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Nigeria
- Aerni, Philipp, World Trade Institute and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Audretsch, David B., Indiana University, USA
- Bisang, Roberto, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina
- Chalmers, Donald, University of Tasmania, Australia
- Chataway, Joanna, RAND Europe, UK
- Correa, Carlos M., University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Enzing, Christien, Technopolis Group, Netherlands
- Huang, Jikun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Hutchison, William, University of Minnesota, USA
- Joly, Pierre-Benoit, INRA/SERD, France
- Kinderlerer, Julian, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Krattiger, Anatole F., Cornell University, USA
- Logar, Nathaniel, Arizona State University, USA
- Lynskey, Michael J., Komazawa University, Japan
- McKelvey, Maureen, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Oliu, Carolina, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Santiago, Chile
- Pelaez, Victor, Federal University of Parana, Brazil
- Persidis, Aris, Argonex, Inc, USA
- Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, Cornell University, USA
- Pyka, Andreas, University of Hohenheim, Germany
- Ramani, Shyama V., UNU-MERIT, Netherlands
- Reiss, Thomas, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany
- Saviotti, Pier-Paolo, Université Pierre Mendès-France, France
- Sriwatanapongse, Sutat, National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Thailand
- Yang, Han-Sung, BioIndustry Association of Korea, South Korea
- Zilberman, David, University of California, USA
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