AIMS and SCOPE
Discoveries publishes original research, review articles and editorials reporting significant advances in medicine, biology, chemistry and related disciplines, with a focus on findings that have direct or indirect translational relevance or open new directions in biomedical research.
Primary areas covered include (and are not limited to):
Fundamental and molecular sciences
- Molecular and cellular biology
- Genetics, genomics, epigenomics and other omics
- Biophysics, biochemistry, chemical biology and chemistry
- Cancer biology and oncology
- Cardiovascular and vascular biology
- Immunology, infectious diseases, and microbiology
- Neuroscience and neurological disorders
- Metabolic diseases and endocrinology
- Reproductive medicine and obstetrics
- Pharmacology and drug discovery
- Clinical medicine and translational research
- Surgical pathology and laboratory medicine
- Psychiatry and mental health
- Dentistry and oral biology
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in biomedicine, including a dedicated AI, Machine Learning & Quantum Sciences Collection covering computational modeling, AI-driven diagnostics, machine learning in biomedicine, quantum computing, and quantum-enabled biosensing
- Biomedical engineering and medical devices
- Original Articles
- Original Case Reports (with significant mechanistic or clinical insight)
- Brief Experimental Articles
- Reviews and Focused Reviews
- Perspective Articles
- Editorials (invited)
Out of scope: Pure clinical case series without mechanistic insight, manuscripts outside the biomedical sciences and their related disciplines.