Biophysics and Physicobiology (BPPB) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access online journal published officially by the Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ)for all areas of biophysics with either the CC BY-NC-SA
4.0 license or the CC BY
4.0 license, which is selected
in accordance with the authors’ preference. Biophysics
has long been developed in a field of physics using physical methods and
theories to study the structures and functions of biological systems. The BSJ had originally published a journal, "Biophysics", since 2005, but changed its name in 2015 adding a word "Physicobiology". It is a new word, proposing that the scope of the
journal could be widen to broader range of biologists and could further
stimulate the exchange of ideas among the biophysicists. The details about the Journal and the Editorial board members are shown in the BPPB web page provided by the BSJ.
Dr.
Fumio Oosawa (10th Dec 1922 – 4th March 2019), a pioneer of single-molecule
studies, made a series of lectures on statistical mechanics at a summer school
run by the Society of Young Scientists in Biophysics in July, 1996. Based on
the lectures, the original Japanese textbook was published in 2011. Since then,
the English version has been expected to be published. The Biophysical Society of
Japan now publishes the English version in a Special Issue of the Biophysics
and Physicobiology (Vol. 18), which is an open access journal, by the Editorial
Team for this Special Issue. In December 2021, the Preface and first Chapter 1
were published. Chapter 2 and later will be published soon one after another.
Biophysics and Physicobiology has been
selected for coverage in ESCI and given the JIF. As of 28th September, 2018, Biophysics and
Physicobiology(BPPB), the international journal
of the Biophysical Society of Japan, was selected for one of the Journals to be
indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). ESCI is a new index in the
Web of Science for journals of regional importance and of newly emerging
fields. The journals in ESCI are collected in Web of Science and have an
imporved visibility from the world. ESCI paves the way for the journals. In June 2023, the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) was
given to BPPB. For
the detail of ESCI and JIF,
visit thewebsite of Clarivate Analytics.