Zack Yang

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About Zack Yang

Metabolites is an open access journal of metabolism and metabolomics, supported by an outstanding Editorial Board composed of high-profile researchers. It recently received its *First Impact Factor* of 3.303 and is indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), PubMed Central, Scopus (CiteScore in 2018: 3.75), and other important databases. Further, the Metabolomics Society (MetSoc) is now an *affiliated society* member of Metabolites. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed, and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 16.8 days after submission. Acceptance to publication takes approximately 3.5 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the second half of 2018). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Identification, structure elucidation and quantification of endogenous and exogenous metabolites in unicellular and multicellular organisms, including lipidomics, cheminformatics and computational chemistry methods in metabolomics; • Progress in methods for biological sample preparation for biomarker and metabolic profiling studies; • Advances in data processing and data analysis concerned with low-molecular weight metabolites detection, identification and curation; • Experimental and computational advances in the analysis of metabolic flux; • Downstream effects of genetic and environmental perturbations on metabolite levels and fluxes; • Computational advances relevant to understanding of metabolic processes and metabolic networks; • Applications of these technologies in the clinical laboratory, including understanding of metabolic diseases, biomarker discovery, inborn errors of metabolism, identification of toxins and pollutants; • Applications of these technologies in agriculture and industry, including plant metabolomics and microbial metabolomics