Epigenetics & Chromatin

Epigenetics & Chromatin is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by BioMed Central that covers the biology of epigenetics and chromatin.

Scope
Epigenetics & Chromatin is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes research related to epigenetic inheritance and chromatin-based interactions. First published in 2008 by BioMed Central, its overall aim is to understand the regulation of gene and chromosomal elements during the processes of cell division, cell differentiation, and any alterations in the environment. To date, 13 volumes have been published.

Usage
As of October 2020, there has been over 340,000 downloads and over 750 Altmetric mentions.

Impact factor
According to Journal Citation Reports, it received an impact factor of 4.237 in 2019. Its current SCImago Journal Rank is 2.449.

Citation impact
Its 2-year and 5-year citation impact factor is 4.237 and 4.763, respectively. Its Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) is 0.896.

Editors
Its current Journal Authority Factor (JAF) is 111.5.

Submission guidelines
Current submission guidelines are as follows:

Prior to submitting
Submitters must ensure that Epigenetics & Chromatin is the most suitable journal for the proposed article in addition to understanding of the costs, funding options, and copyright agreement associated with submission. Accuracy and readability of the manuscript must also be considered.

During the submission process
The manuscript must follow all formatting rules which authors must read, understand and accept.

After successful submission
Authors should review the peer-review policy. Authors should also be familiar with the process of manuscript transfers to a different journal, as well as how to promote the publication.

Speed of the submission process
On average, it takes 53 days to reach a decision for reviewed manuscripts and 35 days for all manuscripts. The process of acceptance takes an average of 112 days after submission. After acceptance, it takes an average of 16 days for an article to be published.

Indexing services
After successful publication in Epigenetics & Chromatin, articles are also included in:


 * Biological Abstracts
 * Chemical Abstracts (CAS)
 * Citebase
 * Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
 * Embase
 * EMBiology
 * MEDLINE
 * OAIster
 * PubMed
 * PubMed Central (PMC)
 * Science Citation Index Expanded
 * Scopus
 * SOCOLAR
 * Zetoc (operated by Jisc)

Notable publications
As of October 2020, the most accessed articles are:
 * Chromatin accessibility: a window into the genome (Tsompana & Buck, 2014)
 * Constitutive heterochromatin formation and transcription in mammals (Saksouk et al., 2015)
 * Chromatin structure and DNA damage repair (Dinant et al., 2008)
 * Profiling genome-wide DNA methylation (Yong et al., 2016)
 * Additional annotation enhances potential for biologically relevant analysis of the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip Array (Price et al., 2013)