About Bioresources and Bioprocessing

Bioresources and Bioprocessing

Bioresources and Bioprocessing, abbreviated BIOB, is an English-language, peer-reviewed open-access journal with electronic ISSN 2197-4365, published under the SpringerOpen brand since 2014. Its home is at bioresourcesbioprocessing.springeropen.com. The journal is associated with the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, which also co-publishes the title and supports review articles, currently with a 50 percent discount on the article-processing charge for reviews. BIOB states its aim as providing an academic platform for exchanging views on and promoting research to support bioresource development, processing and utilization in a sustainable manner, and it publishes original and review articles across bioresource and bioprocess engineering.

Origins and history

The journal began publishing in 2014, giving it more than a decade of continuous open-access output by the mid-2020s. Scopus coverage is recorded from 2014 onward. Over that period its metrics have risen steadily: Springer reports a Journal Impact Factor of 5.1 for 2024, a five-year Journal Impact Factor of 5.5, a CiteScore of 9.5 for 2024, a Source Normalized Impact per Paper of 1.220 and a SCImago Journal Rank of 1.039 for 2024. In June 2025 the journal announced that its latest Journal Citation Reports impact factor of 5.1 ranked it 25th of 177 journals, in the first quartile, in Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology.

Publisher, sponsor and editorial home

SpringerOpen (Springer Nature) as publisher, with the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, as the journal's affiliated and co-publishing institution. East China University of Science and Technology is also the journal's most prolific contributing affiliation in bibliometric listings, reflecting the laboratory's central role in Chinese bioreactor and fermentation engineering research.

What it publishes: scope and subject coverage

bioresource technology and bioprocess engineering in the round: fermentation and bioreactor design, enzyme and biocatalysis research, metabolic and bioprocess engineering, food biotechnology, bioenergy and biofuels, biomass conversion, sustainable biomanufacturing and the wider engineering of biological production systems. Bibliometric analyses of its contents identify industrial and production engineering, food science, biochemistry and fermentation among its leading topics, consistent with its stated sustainable-bioresources mission.

Place and institutional context

Shanghai is the journal's institutional home through East China University of Science and Technology, a university with deep roots in chemical and process engineering, and the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering is one of China's flagship laboratories for fermentation and bioprocess research. That setting places BIOB at the junction of China's large fermentation industry, its bioeconomy policy ambitions and the international movement toward sustainable, bio-based manufacturing.

Indexing, metrics and recognition

The journal is indexed in Scopus and the Science Citation Index Expanded, listed in DOAJ, and ranked Q1 in Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology and Food Science in SCImago-derived listings, with Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment also covered. Its h-index stands at 57 in SCImago-based summaries. These listings make its articles discoverable through the standard international routes used by biotechnology researchers.

Readership and use

The journal's readers are bioprocess engineers, fermentation scientists, enzyme technologists, food biotechnologists, bioenergy researchers and biochemical engineers in universities, institutes and industry. Its open-access model and English language give it a readership well beyond China, while its Shanghai laboratory affiliation keeps it closely read by China's large biomanufacturing research community.

Distinctions and similar titles

Bioresources and Bioprocessing is a different journal from the Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, a separate Chinese title on biomass products with its own sponsor and ISSN, and from the North American journal BioResources, which concentrates on lignocellulosic materials. BIOB's identity is its SpringerOpen open-access platform, its bioreactor-engineering laboratory affiliation in Shanghai, and a scope centred on sustainable processing and utilization of bioresources rather than on wood and pulp alone.

Standing in its field

Taken together, the documented facts give Bioresources and Bioprocessing a clear and durable place in China's scholarly publishing landscape. Its identifiers, sponsor and editorial base are matters of public record, its contents can be followed issue by issue through the channels described above, and its subject community treats it as a working journal rather than a ceremonial one. For a directory of world news and scholarly media, that combination of verifiable identity, continuous publication and a defined readership is what qualifies Bioresources and Bioprocessing for a full profile: it is an active organ of its field, rooted in its city and institution, and distinguishable without ambiguity from every similarly named title.

Publishing model and metrics in detail

Bioresources and Bioprocessing is a gold open-access journal on the SpringerOpen platform, and its metrics page gives a fuller picture than a single impact factor. For 2024 Springer reports a Journal Impact Factor of 5.1, a five-year Journal Impact Factor of 5.5, a CiteScore of 9.5, a Source Normalized Impact per Paper of 1.220 and a SCImago Journal Rank of 1.039. In June 2025 the journal announced through Springer Nature's research communities that the 5.1 impact factor ranked it 25th among 177 journals, in the first quartile, in the Journal Citation Reports category of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology. The State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering supports the journal financially as well as academically, currently meeting 50 percent of the article-processing cost for review articles, an arrangement that encourages the long synthesis papers for which the journal is known. SCImago-based summaries give the journal an h-index of 57 and Q1 positions in biomedical engineering, biotechnology and food science.

Research in practice: what fills its pages

Bibliometric portraits of the journal identify its leading research topics as industrial and production engineering, food science, biochemistry, fermentation and enzyme research, a distribution that matches its aims and scope closely. East China University of Science and Technology, its affiliated institution, is its most prolific source of papers, with around ninety papers in one Research.com count, but the journal's authorship is international, as an open-access Springer title in a global field would expect. The unifying idea is sustainability in processing: research that develops, processes and utilizes bioresources in a sustainable manner, from the design of bioreactors and fermentation processes to the conversion of biomass into food, energy, chemicals and materials. That framing explains the journal's presence in subject categories as apparently diverse as food science, biomedical engineering and renewable energy: each is a destination sector for bioprocess technology, and the journal deliberately publishes across them rather than confining itself to a single industry.

One further documented fact explains the journal's trajectory: its affiliated laboratory's university, East China University of Science and Technology, appears in bibliometric counts as the journal's top contributing institution, yet the journal's categories and authorship extend far beyond one campus, with Q1 rankings recorded in biomedical engineering, biotechnology and food science and a Q2 position in renewable energy, sustainability and the environment in SCImago-derived listings. That spread is the practical meaning of its title. Bioresources are the feedstocks, food, biomass, waste streams and biological materials, and bioprocessing is the engineered conversion of those feedstocks into products. A journal that publishes both halves of that chain, from resource to reactor to product, serves the bioeconomy as a system, and its Shanghai laboratory home gives it a base in the city where much of China's fermentation and biomanufacturing capacity, and the engineering talent behind it, is concentrated.

Access and how to follow it

Readers who want to follow Bioresources and Bioprocessing should start from the bibliographic record given in this profile: the exact title, the ISSN and sponsor named above, and, where the clean record for this rollout supplies an official website, that site. Those identifiers resolve unambiguously in CNKI, publisher platforms and international indexes, and they protect readers against the commonest error in this part of the Chinese journal system, confusing one title with a similarly named journal from another city, sponsor or language edition. Where no official website is recorded, the journal is best reached through its sponsor institution and the standard Chinese journal databases under its ISSN.