Open Access Pub · ISSN 2690-4829
Journal of Enzymes
A peer-reviewed journal that exists so that work on enzymes — how they are built, how they catalyze, how they are controlled, and what they can be made to do — has a place to be published and read in full.
The journal is published by Open Access Pub and is open access: every article is free to read from the day it is published. Authors keep copyright, and each article is issued under the Creative Commons Attribution License stated on it, so the work can be reused and built on with attribution.
- Published by
- Open Access Pub
- ISSN
- 2690-4829
- Access
- Open access; free to read on publication
- Rights
- Author-retained copyright, Creative Commons Attribution License
- Subject remit
- Aims and Scope
Purpose
What the journal is for
Enzyme science is not one field. A crystallographer resolving an active site, a kineticist measuring a rate constant, an engineer running directed evolution and a process chemist immobilizing a catalyst on a membrane work on the same class of molecule and often publish in separate literatures. Enzymes is edited on the premise that they should: the through-line is the enzyme, and the questions asked about it are worth reading together.
The journal therefore takes work from fundamental and applied contexts on the same terms. Mechanism, structure, kinetics and regulation sit alongside engineering, biocatalysis and the clinical, diagnostic and industrial uses that follow from them. What a manuscript needs is a question in which the enzyme is central and evidence that supports the claims actually made.
Readership
Who the journal is written for
The audience is the working enzymologist and the specialist who needs enzyme evidence for something else. Each group below reads the journal for a different reason, and the editorial standard has to serve all of them at once.
- Biochemists and structural biologists Mechanism, active-site architecture and the structural basis of catalytic behavior.
- Kineticists and physical biochemists Rate measurement, substrate specificity, inhibition and the conditions under which activity was determined.
- Protein engineers Directed evolution, rational design and mutagenesis, and what the resulting variants actually do.
- Biocatalysis and process scientists Immobilization, stability, reactor behavior and the transfer of a catalyst out of the cuvette.
- Computational and systems researchers Simulation, modeling and pathway-scale treatments where the enzyme carries the question.
- Clinical, diagnostic and industrial specialists Enzymes as biomarkers, therapeutics and process components, assessed on the evidence the claim requires.
The record
What the journal has published
The published record runs from March 2018 to August 2025 and is held in Volume 1, Issues 1 to 3: research articles alongside editorials, a review, an in-brief report and a short communication. It sets out what the journal has published. The subject remit the journal works to is broader, and it is the remit, not this table, that decides whether a manuscript is in scope.
| Issue | Published | Record types | Records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 1, Issue 1 | March–May 2018 | 2 editorials, 1 research article, 1 review article | 4 |
| Volume 1, Issue 2 | May 2018–July 2020 | 3 research articles, 1 in-brief report | 4 |
| Volume 1, Issue 3 | December 2023–August 2025 | 2 research articles, 1 short communication | 3 |
| Total | 1 March 2018 – 9 August 2025 | 6 research articles and 5 other published records | 11 |
Every record carries a DOI. The complete listing, with authors, dates and pagination, is in the archive, and the most recent issue is on Current Issue.
Operation
How the journal works
A manuscript is screened, sent to subject-matter reviewers, and decided by an editor on the evidence. The stages below are the ones an author passes through, in order.
- Editorial screening All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
- Peer review Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
- Decision Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
- Independence Decisions remain independent of fees, services, memberships, and editorial or reviewer roles. Editors recuse themselves from decisions on their own submissions, which are handled independently.
- Publication and charges Accepted articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution License stated on each article. An article processing charge is invoiced after acceptance.
The full policy set, including ethics, authorship, data and corrections, is in Editorial Policies; the charge schedule is on Article Processing Charges.
Responsibility
Who is responsible for the journal
Scholarly responsibility rests with the editorial board: sixteen researchers who assess manuscripts in their own areas of enzyme science and set the standard the journal applies. The board is led by Editor-in-Chief Phillip Brumm.
Every member is listed publicly with their affiliation and profile, so an author can see who is responsible for the assessment of work in their field before deciding where to send it.
The full board, with affiliations and profiles, is on the Editorial Board page. Researchers interested in reviewing or in editorial service are invited to write to the editorial office.
Next
Where to go from here
Three pages answer most of what an author needs before deciding whether to send a manuscript to this journal.
Journal of Enzymes · ISSN 2690-4829 · Open Access Pub
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