FEBS Letters is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

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 covering all aspects of biochemistry

Biochemistry

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. The journal publishes minireviews, hypotheses, and research letters. FEBS Letters is one of two journals published by Elsevier

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 for the Federation of European Biochemical Societies

Federation of European Biochemical Societies

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 (FEBS), along with Molecular Oncology

Federation of European Biochemical Societies

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Access

Every issue of FEBS Letters is published online. FEBS has made the archive back to the first issue in 1968 free to access online and every issue of the journal is free 1 year after it gets published.

Young Group Leader Award

Each year FEBS Letters presents a €10,000 award to an independent group leader who is the corresponding author of the most outstanding research letter published in the previous calendar year. The prize winner must be the corresponding author of the manuscript and be aged 40 years or younger at the time of manuscript acceptance.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in BIOBASE

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, Biological Abstracts

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, BIOSIS Previews

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, Current Contents

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, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica

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, Genetics Abstracts

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, MEDLINE

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, Neuroscience Citation Index

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, Science Citation Index

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, and Scopus

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