Feature Annual Reviews in Molecular Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

This Topical Collection aims to collect high quality review papers in the molecular sciences’ research fields. We encourage researchers from various fields within the journal’s scope to contribute review papers highlighting the latest developments in their research field, or to invite relevant experts and colleagues to do so. This Topical Collection primarily publishes review papers by invitation, but will also publish reviews on topics of particular interest that do not overlap with current or recent Special Issues (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues).

In this Topical Collection, reviews and topical reviews will be considered. Reviews provide comprehensive in depth overviews with no length restrictions, whereas topical reviews focus on a concise and precise ‘at-a-glance’ summary of novel developments in the field. Topical reviews should be no more than 3500 words in length, with 1–2 “at-a-glance” figure(s) or a comprehensive table.

This Topical Collection also welcomes the submission of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which seek to investigate areas of controversy within the literature. Systematic reviews should conform to the guidelines in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA), or Meta-analyses Of Observational StudiEs (MOOSE) as appropriate [1,2]. Registration of review protocols with an external database (e.g., PROSPERO) is strongly encouraged. In the interests of transparency, authors are strongly encouraged to submit sample data extraction and quality assessment forms where appropriate. The sources of any quality assessment tools, and any modifications made must be clearly detailed. Detailed discussion of how the meta-analyses were conducted, including any formulae for data conversion must also be provided. Authors are welcome to contact the corresponding editor to discuss any queries.

References
[1] Moher D, Shamseer L, Clarke M, Ghersi D, Liberati A, Petticrew M, et al. Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement. Systematic reviews. 2015;4:1.
[2] Stroup DF, Berlin JA, Morton SC, Olkin I, Williamson GD, Rennie D, et al. Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting. Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group. Jama. 2000;283(15):2008-12

Prof. Dr. Irmgard Tegeder
Dr. Joseph V. Moxon
Dr. William Chi-shing Cho
Collection Editors

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the collection website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Molecular Sciences is an international peer-reviewed Open Access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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