Bioscience Hypotheses

Bioscience Hypotheses
New Journal from Sciencedirect

Bioscience Hypotheses' aim is to stimulate innovation. To that end, we chose work that we believe is interesting and challenging, and provides a clear and coherent argument with a testable conclusion. Bioscience Hypotheses is a general journal and articles need to be intelligible to a wide audience in the life sciences, including those who may not be specialists in the field. Clear and concise presentation are very important.

Our four requirements are

• that papers provide new insight into the understanding or application of biology that could be of interest to a wide life science readership
• that the paper is clear, coherent, and that the argument it lays out is easy to follow
• that it is not incompatible with known fact (although it may contest the interpretation of those facts)
• that the authors provide an interpretation, hypothesis or solution that is testable.

Papers that do not provide a means of testing their conclusion, or differentiating their conclusion from other explanations, will be rejected. Papers that provide some preliminary data (itself perhaps not sufficiently robust to be published as an independent paper, but nevertheless rigorously collected) will be welcomed, but preliminary data is not a requirement for publication, and Bioscience Hypotheses is not a forum the publication of new experimental results unless they are supporting a broader theoretical structure.

The journal explicitly does not publish papers addressing medical issues. Our sister journal Medical Hypotheses is the appropriate forum for these.

Free access Volume 1, Issue 1 - 2008

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17562392