''Acta Biotheoretica: Mathematical and philosophical foundations of biological and biomedical science'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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published by
Springer Science+Business Media
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. It is the official journal of the
Jan van der Hoeven Society for Theoretical Biology. The
editor-in-chief
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is F.J.A. Jacobs (
Leiden University
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).
Aims and scope
The journal's focus is
theoretical biology
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which includes mathematical representation, treatment, and modeling for simulations and
quantitative descriptions. The journal's focus also includes the
philosophy of biology
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which emphasizes looking at the methods developed to form
biological theory. Topical coverage also includes
biomathematics
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,
computational biology
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,
genetics
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,
ecology
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, and
morphology
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Disciplines
* Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts
* Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies ...
.
Abstracting and indexing
This journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor
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of 1.185.
According to the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), the journal h-index is 35.
References
Further reading
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External links
*{{Official website, https://www.springer.com/philosophy/epistemology+and+philosophy+of+science/journal/10441
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