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Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology

Elsevier BV·China·ISSN 2097-1206

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology is published by Elsevier BV as an open access journal (ISSN 2097-1206). The list article processing charge is $1,500. Typical time to publication is 15 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 58. Primary field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Fee waivers are stated as available. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$1,500

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · Journal fee page

Time to publication

15 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

58

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

4.2

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology is listed at $1,500. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

The journal's own fee page →

What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 104% since 2019, from $735 to $1,500.

$0$750$1.5k2019: $73520192020: $73520202025: $1,5002025

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC-ND
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

8 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Microbial Metabolic Engineering and BioproductionMicrobial Natural Products and BiosynthesisCRISPR and Genetic EngineeringEnzyme Catalysis and ImmobilizationBiofuel production and bioconversionPlant biochemistry and biosynthesisBacterial Genetics and BiotechnologyRNA and protein synthesis mechanismsFungal and yeast genetics researchGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Publication record

Indexed articles908
Total citations14,234
i10-index345
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2016
All ISSNs2097-1206, 2405-805X

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.