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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Zi (Sophia) Gu, BS, PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia

Associate Editors

Associate Professor Mona Arafa, PhD, The British University in Egypt, Egypt and Mansura University Hospital, Egypt
Professor Wei Chen, PhD, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Professor Jonathan Coulter, PhD, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, UK 
Dr. Željka Krpetić, PhD, University of Salford, UK
Dr. Hao Song, PhD, The University of Queensland, Australia

Editorial Board Members

Professor Sonia Antoranz Contera, PhD, Oxford University, UK
Dr. Raj Bawa, MS, PhD, MD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Professor Mathias Brust, PhD, University of Liverpool, UK
Esther Chang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
Professor Paul Chu, PhD, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Marco Durante, PhD, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Germany
Professor Zahi Fayad, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA 
Costas Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Professor Hossam Haick, PhD, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Hao Hong, PhD, University of Wisconsin USA
Professor Joseph Irudayaraj, PhD, Purdue University, USA
Professor of Clinical Oncology Suneil Jain, MB BCh BAO,  PhD, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Jorge Kohanoff, PhD, Queen's University Belfast, UK
M.N.V. Ravi Kumar, PhD, Texas A&M University, USA
Sandrine Lacombe, PhD, University Paris-Sud, France
Chun Li, PhD, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Professor Nigel Mason, PhD, The Open University, UK
Professor Helen McCarthy, PhD, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Professor Arben Merkoçi, PhD, ICREA, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, BIST, CSIC, Spain
Samir Mitragotri, PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Jwa-Min Nam, PhD, Seoul National University, South Korea
Takuro Niidome, ScD, Kumamoto University, Japan
Adriele Prina-Mello, PhD, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Professor Victor Puntes, PhD, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Technology, Spain
Associate Professor Jan Schuemann, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA
Professor Giuseppe Schettino, PhD, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), UK
Andrey Solov'yov, PhD, MBN Res. Center at Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Center, Germany
Professor Xianwen Wang, PhD, Anhui Medical University, China
Associate Professor Suresh Valiyaveettil, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Younan Xia, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Xiu-Ping Yan, PhD, Nankai University, China
G.W. Yang, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Xian-Da Yang, MD, PhD, Peking Union Medical College, China

Trusted Reviewers

Doha H Abou Baker, PhD, National Research Centre, Egypt
Wenfei Chen, PhD, Sichuan University, China
Moumita Dhara, PhD, Jadavpur University, India
Iman Ehsan, PhD, Jadavpur University, India
Eman Ali Bakr Eltonouby, PhD, Tanta University, Egypt
Anna G Grebinyk, PhD, Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Germany
Seok Won Ham, PhD, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
Muzammal Hussain, PhD, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, USA
Ajmal Khan, University of North Carolina, USA
Hwunjae Lee, PhD, Yonsei University, South Korea
Quguang Li, PhD, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA
Paweł Misiak, PhD, University of Białystok, Poland
Ram Prasadh Narayanan, PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Camila Sales Nascimento, PhD, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
Dai Cao Phung, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Aishwarya Saraswat, PhD, St. John's University, USA
Adli Abdallah Selim, PhD, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt
Tanima Sengupta, PhD, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway
Katerina Spyridopoulou, PhD, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Mohamed M Swidan, PhD, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt
Louis Vu, PhD, Cornell University, USA
Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner, PhD, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Kaiyong Yang, PhD, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China
Fumi Yoshino, PhD, Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan
Yining Zhu, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 4.5
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 5.1
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.723
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.671

    Speed 2024
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 9
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 107

    Usage 2024
    Downloads: 274,722
    Altmetric mentions: 18