The editorial board of MUBSB includes many well known scientists, among which there are seven full members and four corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The editorial board is headed by a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dean of the School of Biology of Moscow State University M.P. Kirpichnikov.Owing to its specificity, MUBSB is a multidisci plinary edition; therefore, it publishes the works devoted to numerous aspects of both theoretical and experimental biology, which makes it interesting for scientists who belong to the most varied branches of biological science. In particular, papers touch upon the problems of ecology, biomedicine, botany, zool ogy, molecular biology, embryology, plant and animal physiology, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, cytol ogy, virology, immunology, microbiology, gerontology, evolutionary biology, biotechnology, bioengineering, etc.The journal publishes approximately 40 papers per year in total (four quarterly issues).MUBSB is indexed in many international data bases: Google Scholar, CAB International, Academic OneFile, CAB Abstracts, Gale, Global Health, Health Reference Center Academic, OCLC, and Summon by Serial Solutions.Since 2011, MUBSB is also present in one of the most well known databases of this type-Scopus. This electronic resource contains both separate papers from the journal and its own page with all scientomet ric indices [1]. MUBSB also has its own page on the The rapid progress of MUBSB in recent years is apparently due to the journal having been distributed since 2007 by the internationally renowned Springer publishing consortium that places electronic versions of all articles on its website, which has, to all appearances, led to a manifold increase in the number of journal subscribers. As a result, the number of downloads of MUBSB papers from the publishing company website also raised by an order of magnitude from 2007 to 2013. The growing popularity of the journal is noted to have lead to its inclusion in a number of international databases, and this, in turn, has increased its attractiveness for a large number of authors, including Russian nonmem bers of Moscow State University, as well as scientists from research institutes and universities of other coun tries. The main features of the spectrum of the papers published in MUBSB are briefly considered.
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Moscow University Biological Sciences