An open archive for the life sciences.
Bioresearch Bulletin is an open-access, peer-reviewed research journal publishing original work across all aspects of biological research. Every accepted manuscript is released to the world for free, with no paywall and no embargo.
Open access at Bioresearch Bulletin
Bioresearch Bulletin is an open access International Journal. Open access journals provide immediate and free access to all published full-text articles to interested readers from around the world. Open access also gives readers the ability to view, save, print, copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt any published article without fee-based subscriptions. The availability of the author's paper in open access makes it possible for the scientific community to understand and develop an impact in the concerned research field. It also increases the chance of more citations of the published work, which in turn can be translated into more recognition of research. Open access journals also accelerate research and knowledge building worldwide.
Our mission
Bioresearch Bulletin exists to remove the barriers between scientists and their readers. Knowledge belongs to everyone, and the people who paid for it — through public funding, tuition, taxes, and the volunteer labour of reviewers — should not be charged a second time to read it. We publish work that is useful, reproducible, and accessible: writing that respects readers' time, releases its data and code, and takes seriously the responsibility of an open archive to outlast the lab that produced it.
Open access is more than a publishing format. For a researcher in a small public university in India, in West Africa, in rural Brazil, the difference between a paywalled article and an open one is the difference between knowing and not knowing. It is the difference between citing the literature accurately and citing only what one's institution can afford. Every article in our archive can be read, downloaded, translated, taught from, remixed, and built upon by anyone with an internet connection — a high-school biology teacher, a clinician in a district hospital, a self-taught coder building a tool for a national park, an undergraduate writing a thesis. We treat that audience as our primary reader, not as an afterthought.
We also believe scientific publishing should respect the work it carries. That means a thoughtful peer review process, transparent editorial decisions, durable archiving, and citation-stable identifiers. It means publishing replications and negative results when they teach us something. It means no surprise charges, no hidden licensing terms, and no extracting fees from authors who can't afford them. We grant CC-BY rights so that anyone can reuse the work with attribution, and we encourage authors to deposit their data in public repositories so that the methods and findings can be independently verified.
Editors & reviewers
Our editors and reviewers are working scientists and clinicians who handle peer review across our subject areas and shape the journal's editorial direction. We list them with links to their public profiles where available; if you would like to be considered for an editorial role or join the reviewer roster, see join as editor or reviewer.
Anusha Bhaskar
Anusha Bhaskar is a biochemist at PRIST University in Vallam, where she teaches and runs a small lab. A lot of her published work has been about Indian medicinal plants — what they do in the body, why they work, and whether the traditional uses hold up under modern lab tests. She has looked at orange peel extract for wound healing, hibiscus for its antioxidant punch, and seeds from Mucuna pruriens for blood-sugar effects in diabetic models. For the journal she reads submissions in biochemistry, pharmacology, and anything involving plant-based compounds.
Brajesh Kumar
Brajesh Kumar reads submissions for the journal that sit at the seam between chemistry and biology — green synthesis methods, nanoparticles being put to biological use, and the analytical work that goes into figuring out what is actually in a natural extract. He's the editor we send a paper to when the question is really "is this chemistry sound?" before anyone gets to the biology.
Chandraju S
Prof. S. Chandraju is Director and Professor at the Sugar Technology department of the University of Mysore. His own research wanders through some surprisingly practical territory — getting sugar back out of food waste, blending ethanol with esters for cleaner fuel, and figuring out whether the dark sludgy stuff left over from distilleries (spentwash) can be diluted and reused as fertilizer rather than dumped. (Short answer from his work: yes, with the right dilution.) He looks after submissions in agricultural chemistry, soil science, and anything involving the chemistry of crops or sugar.
Chidan Kumar C S
Dr. C. S. Chidan Kumar teaches chemistry at Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology in Mysuru after a postdoc stint in Malaysia. His research is on the funny edge of chemistry where you make a new compound, grow a clean crystal of it, then shine lasers at it to see how it bends light — useful for the next generation of optical-limiting materials. He picked up an Award for Research Excellence from the Indus Foundation at the Indo-Global Education Summit a few years back. For the journal, he handles chemistry-heavy submissions and anything where materials science meets biology.
Chad Shaw
Dr. Chad Shaw is a chiropractor in Jacksonville, Florida with more than two decades of clinical experience. He co-founded Shaw Chiropractic in 2007 with his wife Dr. Andrea Shaw to make holistic, hands-on care available to patients in his home town. The practice has been seeing clients for the past two decades, and performed over one million chiropractic adjustments. He brings a clinician's eye to the journal: when a paper crosses his desk, the question he tends to ask first is whether the conclusion is something a working practitioner can actually do anything with. He reads submissions in musculoskeletal research, manual-therapy outcomes, integrative wellness, and the broader health-sciences side of our scope.
What we publish
The journal aims at publishing original scientific research and review papers across the life sciences and the engineering, computational, and chemical disciplines that intersect with them. Our scope includes, but is not limited to: aerobiology, agricultural engineering and technology, agronomy, anatomy, biochemistry, biometry, biosciences, botany, cell biology, chronobiology, clinical sciences, comparative physiology, crop sciences, cytology, developmental biology, embryology, endocrinology, environmental sciences, ethnobotany, ethology, evolutionary biology, fisheries, food and nutrition science, forestry, genetic engineering, genetics, histology, horticultural sciences, immunology, methodology, microbiology, molecular biology, morphology, paleontology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, plant breeding, psychology, radiation biology, reproductive biology, soil sciences, special cultivation technology, taxonomy, toxicology, virology, and wildlife biology and conservation. The scope of Bioresearch Bulletin also covers research applying chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics to life science.
The journal is intended to be of interest to a broad audience of life-science researchers, experts, scholars, students, and the general public. We accept the following article types: peer-reviewed research articles, peer-reviewed reviews, letters, book reviews, research news, career, institution / organization / lab introductions, and photographs / illustrations / 3D models. All submissions go through double-blind peer review, and we publish reviewer reports alongside accepted papers when authors opt in.
A journal that travels well
An open archive only works if it stays accessible. We invest in the boring infrastructure of permanence: stable DOIs through Crossref, full-text deposit in indexing databases including PubMed, Scopus, DOAJ, and Google Scholar, and self-archiving at every stage of the editorial process. Every article published in Bioresearch Bulletin is self-archived and indexed in Google Scholar, and we encourage authors to mirror their accepted manuscripts on institutional repositories, on preprint servers, and on their own websites. The more places a paper lives, the harder it is to lose.
We also care about the cost of doing science in the first place. We waive article-processing charges for authors in lower- and middle-income economies who would otherwise be priced out, and we are open about our editorial economics. The journal is run by a small team and a network of volunteer reviewers; submissions move quickly because the operation is small and the priorities are clear. We exist to put work in front of readers who need it, not to maximize subscription revenue or to gate access behind credentials.
Open as a default, not a feature
Almost every choice we make on this site — how articles are licensed, how the archive is structured, how data is deposited, how authors are credited — flows from a single starting position: that science is more useful when it is shared. We do not treat open access as a marketing badge. We treat it as the obvious answer to a question the rest of academic publishing has been answering wrong for decades. If you publish here, your work will be readable on any device, in any country, in any year, by anyone — with or without an institutional subscription, with or without our permission, with or without us still being around to give it. That is what an open archive is for.
Journal information
ISSN Print — 0976 5751
ISSN Online — 0976 576X
Journal type — International, Open
access
Review type — Double-blind peer review
Open access licence — Creative Commons
Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0);
the author retains the copyright for their work.
Indexing — All articles published in
Bioresearch Bulletin are self-archived and indexed in Google
Scholar.
Contact —
[email protected]
About the publisher
Bioresearch Bulletin is published by Sapience Research Labs — a small team driven to develop simple but useful tools for the research community to take their work to the world. The company is managed by a team of young, enthusiastic individuals with years of experience in scholarly publishing and developing IT tools.