Nicola is a Senior Editor for the BMC Series and the Editor of BMC Immunology. Before joining BMC in March 2021, Nicola was a Senior Editor at PLOS ONE in the Life Sciences team and was a News and Views Intern at the Journal of Experimental Biology. She holds a Master’s degree in Biology from the University of Bath, UK, with year-long research project at Dartmouth College, USA, investigating cell cycle regulation in budding yeast. She holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge where she worked on a chromatin associated protein and its role in gene regulation at the Babraham Institute. In joining the BMC Series Nicola looks forward to continuing to champion for Open Science communication and publishing.
Editor Profiles
Nicola Stead, Editor
Stuart Weir
Back to topStuart Weir is an Assistant Editor for BMC Infectious Diseases, BMC Microbiology and BMC Immunology. He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2018 with an MSci in Biology where he looked at the influence of environmental factors such as parasitic infections on the rates of allergy in relation to the hygiene hypothesis.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 2.9
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 3.3
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.775
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.815
Speed 2023
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 14
Submission to acceptance (median days): 188
Usage 2023
Downloads: 671,800
Altmetric mentions: 176