Aims

OBM Genetics (ISSN 2577-5790) is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. It accepts papers addressing basic and medical aspects of genetics and epigenetics and also ethical, legal and social issues. Coverage includes clinical, developmental, diagnostic, evolutionary, genomic, mitochondrial, molecular, oncological, population and reproductive aspects. It aims to enhance the international exchange of scientific activities in genetic and genomic science. It publishes a variety of article types (Original Research, Review, Communication, Opinion, Comment, Conference Report, Technical Note, Book Review, etc.). There is no restriction on the length of the papers and we encourage scientists to publish their results in as much detail as possible.

Scope

• DNA and chromosomes
• Gene expression and regulation
• Evolutionary genetics
• Non-coding and other RNAs
• Population and quantitative genetics
• Human/Animal/Plant genetics and genomics
• Medical genetics and gene therapy
• Population genetics and conservation genetics
• Genome and genomics
• Genetic testing
• Genetic disease
• Mutations
• Molecular genetics and genomics
• Epigenomics
• Neurogenomics
• Microbial genetics and genomics
• Genetic engineering
• Behavioural genetics

LIDSEN Publication Ethics Statement

OBM Genetics is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We strictly adhere to the code of publication ethics set forth by COPE and deal with suspected ethical issues in accordance with its Core Practices.

Submitted articles are required to comply with Editorial Process and Quality Control, Research and Publication Ethics Guidelines, and Instructions for Authors, and rigorous and thorough peer review processes will be conducted to enforce high-quality articles. To verify the originality of content submitted to the journal, we run an assay using iThenticate to check the similarity of submissions against previously published works. We are committed to ensuring that any potential ethical issues realized or pointed out, regardless of whether the manuscript is in the peer-review stage, has been accepted, or has been published, will be investigated and managed following a standard process.

Copyright License and Open Access

Articles in OBM Genetics will be Open-Access published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License, unless otherwise noted. The copyright is retained by the author(s). Under this license, authors agree to make articles, including data, graphics, and supplements, legally available for reuse, without permission or fees, for virtually any purpose. Any individual or institution is free to copy, distribute, reproduce, or reuse these publications, as long as the author and original source are properly cited.

Please note that some articles (especially Reviews) may contain figures, tables or text taken from other publications, for which OBM Genetics does not hold the copyright or the right to re-license the published material. You should inquire with the original copyright holder (usually the original publisher or authors), whether or not this material can be re-used.

All the papers that are published in OBM Genetics contain a note:

© 2024 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is correctly cited.

Announcement

Announcements regarding academic conferences are published for free in the Conferences section of the journal. Please contact us at genetics@lidsen.com.

Editorial Office

Ms. Ellen Zhang
Managing Editor

For further OBM Genetics contacts, see here.