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Journal of the Royal Society Interface



 
 
Journal of the Royal Society Interface is an international journal publishing reviews, research articles and short reports from the interface between the physical sciences, including mathematics, and the life sciences. It provides a high-quality forum to publish rapidly and interact across this boundary in two main ways: J. R. Soc. Interface publishes research applying chemistry, engineering, materials science, mathematics and physics to the biological and medical sciences; it also highlights discoveries in the life sciences that allow advances in the physical sciences.






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Journal of the Royal Society Interface is an international journal publishing reviews, research articles and short reports from the interface between the physical sciences, including mathematics, and the life sciences. It provides a high-quality forum to publish rapidly and interact across this boundary in two main ways: J. R. Soc. Interface publishes research applying chemistry, engineering, materials science, mathematics and physics to the biological and medical sciences; it also highlights discoveries in the life sciences that allow advances in the physical sciences. Both sides of the interface are considered equally. Accepted articles are published immediately online and the hard copy version of the journal appears every month.

Free access is allowed to all review articles from the moment of online publication and to every article 12 months after publication in the journal.

Journal coverage

J. R. Soc. Interface welcomes articles on a diverse range of topics including, but not limited to:

  • biocomplexity
    Biocomplexity

    Biocomplexity is the study of complex structures and behaviors that arise from nonlinear interactions of active biological agents, which may range in scale from molecules to cells to organisms....
  • bioengineering
    Bioengineering

    Bioengineering is the application of engineering principles to address challenges in the fields of biology and medicine. As a study, it encompasses biomedical engineering and it is related to biotechnology....
  • bioinformatics
    Bioinformatics

    Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to the field of molecular biology. The term bioinformatics was coined by Paulien Hogeweg in 1978 for the study of informatic processes in biotic systems....
  • biomaterials
  • biomechanics
    Biomechanics

    Biomechanics is the application of mechanical principles to living organisms. This includes bioengineering, the research and analysis of the mechanics of living organisms and the application of engineering principles to and from biological systems....
  • biophysics
    Biophysics

    Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that employs and develops theories and methods of the physical sciences for the investigation of biology systems....
  • chemical biology
    Chemical biology

    Chemical biology is a scientific discipline spanning the fields of chemistry and biology that involves the application of chemical techniques and tools, often compounds produced through chemical synthesis, to the study and manipulation of biological systems....
  • infectious disease dynamics
  • medical physics
    Medical physics

    File:Gamma knife.jpgMedical physics is the application of physics to medicine. It generally concerns physics as applied to medical imaging and radiotherapy, although a medical physicist may also work in many other areas of healthcare....
  • nanoscience and computer science (as applied to the life sciences)
  • synthetic biology
    Synthetic biology

    Synthetic biology is a new area of biology research that combines science and engineering in order to design and build novel biological functions and systems....
  • systems biology
    Systems biology

    Systems biology is a biology-based inter-disciplinary study field that focuses on the systematic study of complex interactions in biological systems, thus using a new perspective to study them....
  • theoretical biology
    Theoretical biology

    Theoretical biology is a field of academic study and research that involves the use of models and theory in biology.Many separate areas of biology fall under the concept of theoretical biology, according to the way they are studied....
  • tissue engineering
    Tissue engineering

    Tissue engineering is the use of a combination of Cell s, engineering and Materials science methods, and suitable biochemistry and physio-chemical factors to improve or replace biology functions....



Significant review articles


The following are a selection of review papers published in J. R. Soc. Interface. Like all such articles they are free to access.


by Philippe Marguet, Frederick Balagadde, Cheemeng Tan and Lingchong You


by Andrew Parker


by Yoshito Ikada


by Francis J. Doyle and Jörg Stelling


by Matt J. Keeling and Ken T.D. Eames


Free access to previous issues


The following issues of the journal are now free to access:
























Selection criteria

The review process gives equal weighting to sciences on both sides of the intreface. The criteria for selection are scientific excellence, originality and potential interest to a wide spectrum of scientists. All papers are peer-reviewed to a high standard and published rapidly under the control of the Editor and his distinguished Editorial Board.

Papers must not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The Editor has final authority in all matters relating to publication.



Submission details

The Royal Society's electronic-submission and peer-review service provides J. R. Soc. Interface authors with the facility to submit their papers online. The service allows you to upload files in a reliable and user-friendly way, using a web-based system. When your paper is received, an immediate acknowledgement is sent that details how you can track your contribution online.

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Journal contents



Editorial Board


Professor William Bonfield (Editor) Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy University of Cambridge

Professor Luigi Ambrosio Centre for Biomaterials University of Naples "Federico II"

Professor Jonathan Ashmore Department of Physiology University College London

Professor Christopher Dobson Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge

Professor Francis Doyle III Department of Chemical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara

Professor Neil Fergusson Faculty of Medicine Imperial College London

Professor Wayne Getz Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management University of California at Berkeley

Professor Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall

Dame Wendy Hall Order of the British Empire Royal Academy of Engineering is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton in England....
Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton

Professor Stefan Hell
Stefan Hell

Stefan W. Hell is a physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in G?ttingen, Germany....
NanoBiophotonics Max-Planck-Institut fur biophysikalische, Gottingen

Professor Larry Hench Department of Materials Imperial College London

Dr Richard Henderson
Richard Henderson (molecular biologist)

Richard Henderson is a British molecular biologist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules. Henderson was educated at Edinburgh University ....
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Cambridge

Professor C. James Kirkpatrick Institute of Pathology Johannes Gutenberg University

Dr Hiroaki Kitano
Hiroaki Kitano

is a Japanese scientist who currently works for Sony Computer Science Laboratories and is best known for developing AIBO. He graduated from International Christian University in 1984 and received a Ph.D....
Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc Tokyo

Professor Richard Kitney Department of BioEngineering Imperial College London

Professor Michael Klein
Michael L. Klein

Michael L. Klein is the Hepburn Professor of Physical Science in the Center for Molecular Modeling at the University of Pennsylvania.He obtained a B.Sc....
Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter University of Pennsylvania

Professor Tadashi Kokubo Research Institute for Science and Technology Chubu University

Professor Tom McLeish IRC in Polymer Science and Technology University of Leeds

Professor Teruo Okano Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science Tokyo Women's Medical University

Professor Steve Oliver School of Biological Sciences University of Manchester

Professor Dame Julia Polak
Julia Polak

Dame Julia M. Polak, Order of the British Empire, Academy of Medical Sciences is a current head of the Centre for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at Imperial College London, a centre for medical research she set up with Professor Larry Hench, also from Imperial College, to develop cells and tissues for transplantation into...
TERM Centre, Division of Investigative Science Imperial College London

Professor Patrick Prendergast Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Trinity College, Dublin

Sir George Radda
George Radda

Professor Sir George Charles Radda was born in 1936 in Hungary. In 1956, he attended Merton College, Oxford to study chemistry. His early work was concerned with the development and use of fluorescent probes for the study of structure and function of membranes and enzymes....
University Laboratory of Physiology University of Oxford

Professor David Rand Department of Mathematics University of Warwick

Professor Neil Rushton Orthopaedic Research Unit University of Cambridge

Professor John Ryan
John Ryan

John Ryan may refer to:*Several recipients of the Victoria Cross:** in 1857, see John Ryan ** in 1863, see John Ryan ** in 1918, see John Ryan ...
Bionanotechnology IRC University of Oxford

Professor Simon Tavaré Department of Biological Sciences University of Southern California

Professor Richard Templer Department of Chemistry Imperial College London

Professor Martin Vingron Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik Berlin

Professor Ioannis Yannas Department of Mechanical Engineering MIT

Professor Joseph Zaccai Institut Laue-Langevin Grenoble

Professor Xingdong Zhang Engineering Research Center in Biomaterials Sichuan University