About Nutrition & Metabolism

What is Nutrition & Metabolism?

Nutrition & Metabolism is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal focused on the integration of nutrition, exercise physiology, clinical investigations, and molecular and cellular biochemistry of metabolism.

The areas of interest of Nutrition & Metabolism encompass studies in obesity, diabetes, lipidemias, metabolic syndrome and exercise physiology that have an underlying basis in metabolism. Likewise, we seek submission of manuscripts on the biochemistry of metabolism, cell signaling, molecular and cellular biology of nutrients, nutrient gene interactions and other areas that have implications for human nutrition and medicine. Current, but not exclusive, interests are metabolic effects of diet composition, interactions of macronutrients, effect of nutrients on gene expression, metabolic control and compartment models, nutritional effect of hormones, and genomic analysis of dietary phenomena.

Recent events that provide the rationale for Nutrition & Metabolism are 1) awareness of an epidemic of obesity, diabetes, lipidemias and other related diseases, 2) the sudden increase in popularity of diets, such as low carbohydrate diets, to achieve weight loss, and 3) a renewed interest in intermediary metabolism accompanied by the development of new tools and techniques for genomic and metabolic analysis. With the considerable activity shown in these areas, rapid dissemination of new information is clearly valuable. Whereas articles that appear in existing journals discuss intermediary metabolism in a nutritional context, there is a need for unique and explicit focus for this discipline.

Content overview

Nutrition & Metabolism considers the following types of articles:

• Book Reviews: a broad perspective of texts, technical and lay books on nutrition, metabolism and biochemistry will be considered for Book Review.
• Brief Communications: Original research of high quality with limited goals or restricted focus will be considered in this category.
• Commentaries: focused and opinionated articles on subjects within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to contemporary issues, such as recent research findings, and are often written by leaders invited by the Editorial Board.
• Critical Reviews: Authoritative summaries of any subject within the journal's scope with dispassionate and rational critique of the field. Critical reviews may be unsolicited or proposed by the editorial staff.
• Letters: they can take three forms: a substantial re-analysis of a previously published article, or a substantial response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication, or an article that may not cover 'standard research' but that may be relevant to readers.
• Methods: Papers describing new methods that advance research in nutrition and metabolism will be published.
• Original Research: should exemplify outstanding clinical or basic research with clear conclusions and appropriate methodology.
• Perspectives: normally commissioned and usually based on one or more recently published articles interesting enough to warrant a short commentary.

Peer review policies

• Manuscripts are reviewed by one Associate Editor and one or more ad hoc reviewers. Editors and reviewers generally remain anonymous. The Editors-in-Chief review final recommendations and the final summary statement for style and constructive and collegial tone. Final decisions are then sent to the authors.
• Instructions to reviewers: In deciding whether to recommend the manuscript to be accepted or rejected, or to ask for major or minor revisions, reviewers ask whether the manuscript provides a major advancement in science, and whether the scientific community is well served by its publication. Peer-reviewers will evaluate soundness of experimental approaches, clarity of presentations, and appropriate citations of published articles. Manuscripts are selected on the basis of originality, scientific quality and impact.
• In cases of ambiguity, the Editor-in-chief or a third reviewer will be consulted. Clerical duties are performed by secretarial staff of the Department of Biochemistry at Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.

Edited by Richard D. Feinman and M. Mahmood Hussain, Nutrition & Metabolism is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Nutrition & Metabolism

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central, Thomson Reuters (ISI), CAS and Embase.

Articles in Nutrition & Metabolism should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Nutr Metab (Lond) 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Nutrition & Metabolism does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Nutrition & Metabolism using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Nutrition & Metabolism is published  by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Nutrition & Metabolism however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Nutrition & Metabolism's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Nutrition & Metabolism will be available.

Nutrition & Metabolism is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.