Editors-in-Chief
Peng Li
John R Speakman
Abstracting and Indexing
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Featured Articles Collection
Explore a collection of high-quality articles published in Life Metabolism in 2024. The collection showcases the impactful research that the journal publishes.
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Special Issue: Inter-organ crosstalk
Read the latest special issue from Life Metabolism on the subject of inter-organ crosstalk.
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Reasons to submit
Life Metabolism is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal. Discover why you should submit your best research today.
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Abstracting and Indexing
Life Metabolism is proud to be indexed in a range of services including DOAJ, ESCI, Scopus, and more.
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Discover our first Virtual Special Issue
We are delighted to announced that our first Virtual Special Issue on Immunometabolism has been published. The review collection focuses on four timely aspects of the fundamental connection between immunity and metabolism.
We hope that these exciting reviews will stimulate discussion and will contribute to the growth of the field of immunometabolism.
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Life Metabolism Editorial Board
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Open access
All content published in this journal is open access (OA). Benefits of publishing OA include:
- Impact and citations
- Freely available to read and download
- Comply with funder mandates
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Win our Travel Prize!
Are you a PhD student or a postdoc fellow working on metabolism? Are you intending to present a talk or poster at an upcoming conference during 2025? Do you need some extra travel support?
Life Metabolism is delighted to announce FOUR $700 US dollar travel prizes!
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