Akila Sridhar obtained her Ph.D from the University of Aberdeen, UK (funded by Cancer Research UK), has a further three years postdoctoral experience as an EMBO Long-term Fellow at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Portugal. Her interests cover molecular genetics, cellular biology, biochemistry, developmental biology and telomere biology. After over eleven years of research experience, mainly as a molecular biologist, working with different model systems, she joined the BMC Series as a Locum Editor in September 2018. She has been the Editor of BMC Biotechnology since February 2019 and is based in Springer Nature’s London office.
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61 days to first decision for all manuscripts
186 days from submission to acceptance
17 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
2.563 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.292 - 5-year Impact Factor
0.902 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.836 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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