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Biophysical reviews: call for nominations for the 2023 Michèle Auger Award

This Editorial for Issue 3 (Vol. 14 2022) of Biophysical Reviews first describes the Issue's contents (five commentaries/editorials within the front matter and seven review/letter articles appearing within the main body) before going on to discuss a number of matters of potential importance to the journal and its readers. Amongst this second tranche of content is the opening of the call for nominations for the 2023 Michèle Auger Award for Young Scientists' Independent Research.

Biophysical Reviews: from the umbra of 2020-2021 into the antumbra of 2022

This sub-Editorial for Volume 14 Issue 1 (2022) first makes comment on the current issue and then describes matters of interest related to the journal’s activities in 2022—chief among which are (i.) the announcement of the winner of the 2022 Michèle Auger Award for Young Scientists’ Independent Research, (ii.) an outline of this year’s finalized Special Issue (SI) lineup, (iii.) a description of a new production service offered by Springer to those submitting to the Biophysical Reviews journal, and (iv.) an introduction of newly appointed members of the Biophysical Reviews’ Editorial Board.

Biophysical Reviews- 2021, the year that was

The current issue (volume 13 issue 6, 2021) is a Special Issue jointly dedicated to scientific content presented at the 20th triennial IUPAB Congress that was held in conjunction with both the 45th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Biophysical Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Biofísica - SBBf) and the 50th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Sociedade Brasileira de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular - SBBq). In addition to describing the scientific and nonscientific content arising from the meeting this sub-editorial also provides a look back at some of the high points for Biophysical Reviews in the year 2021 before going on to describe a number of matters of interest to readers of the journal in relation to the coming year of 2022.

Biophysical reviews-providing an effective critique

This Editorial for Volume 13, Issue 4 of Biophysical Reviews begins with an introduction to the invited Review contributed by the 2021 winner of "The Michèle Auger Award for Young Scientists' Independent Research" (Assoc. Prof. Jorge Alegre-Cebollada). After providing a short summary of the other articles contained within the Issue, we discuss some additional matters important to the journal and its readers. In particular, this Editorial describes ongoing preparations for the upcoming IUPAB World Congress (October 4th-8th); it introduces two new Executive Editors from the UK and Spain; it describes the journal's placement in the latest SCIMago journal rankings, and it explains a new feature of the journal-"The Biophysical Reviews Historical Top Five". This piece closes with some thoughts about what might constitute a constructive critique of a manuscript.

Biophysical Reviews-A call to young biophysicists

This Editorial for Volume 13, Issue 3 of Biophysical Reviews begins with a summary of the Issue contents. This is then followed by a discussion of some additional matters important to the journal. In particular, this Editorial offers some thoughts as to what constitutes a good scientific Commentary before announcing the call for nominations for the 'The 2022 Michèle Auger Award for Young Scientists' Independent Research'.