Why publish your article in Bulletin of the National Research Centre?
High visibility
Bulletin of the National Research Centre's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.
Speed of publication
Bulletin of the National Research Centre offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Bulletin of the National Research Centre and SpringerOpen.
Flexibility
Online publication in Bulletin of the National Research Centre gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).
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Copyright
Authors of articles published in Bulletin of the National Research Centre retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the copyright and license agreement).
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Open access
All articles published by the Bulletin of the National Research Centre are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.
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Article-processing charges
The Bulletin of the National Research Centre is supported through an agreement between Springer Nature and the Specialized Presidential Council for Education and Scientific Research (Government of Egypt), so author-payable article-processing charges do not apply.
Indexing services
All articles published in Bulletin of the National Research Centre are included in:
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The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by SpringerOpen on SpringerLink.
We are working closely with relevant indexing services including PubMed Central and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) to ensure that articles published in Bulletin of the National Research Centre will be available in their databases when appropriate.
Citing articles in Bulletin of the National Research Centre
Articles in Bulletin of the National Research Centre should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.
Article citations follow this format:
Authors: Title. Bull Natl Res Cent [year], [volume number]:[article number].
e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Bull Natl Res Cent 2009, 1:115.
1:115 refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Editorial policies
All manuscripts submitted to Bulletin of the National Research Centre should adhere to SpringerOpen's editorial policies.
Once your article is accepted, it will be processed by production and published shortly afterwards. In some cases, articles may be held for a short period of time prior to publication. If you have any concerns or particular requirements please contact the Journal.
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Appeals and complaints
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