Burapha Science Journal: Scopus Indexing, Scope, Submission & Author Guide

Quick Answer: What Is Burapha Science Journal?

Burapha Science Journal is a multidisciplinary scholarly journal established in 1996 and currently published online by the Faculty of Science, Burapha University. It accepts Thai and English manuscripts and publishes three issues each year: January–April, May–August and September–December.

The journal’s scope includes biology, microbiology, biochemistry, biotechnology, food science, marine and aquatic science, physics, chemistry, materials science, mathematics, statistics, GIS, computer science, bioinformatics, environmental science and other applied science areas. Its current site lists Research Articles and Academic Papers as its principal submission categories.

BSJ announced Scopus acceptance in April 2026. Its supplied Scopus Source Record ID is 21101442598. Current CiteScore, SJR, SNIP and quartile values should be checked directly in Scopus because this is a newly accepted title and authoritative current metric values were not independently verified for this article.

Key Takeaways

• Publisher: Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Thailand.
• Scopus: the journal announced official acceptance for inclusion effective 19 April 2026; authors should verify live coverage and source metrics in Scopus.
• Current online ISSN: 2985-0983; the journal historically used print ISSN 0858-7612 and earlier online ISSN 2351-0781.
• Scope: broad science and technology, including biological, physical, food, aquatic, mathematical, computational, environmental and applied sciences.
• Peer review: the current site describes single-blind review by at least three external experts.
• Open access and fees: immediate open access; the current site states there are no submission fees or APCs.
• Languages: Thai and English; Thai papers require expanded English-facing content and metadata.
• Indicative timeline: the journal currently describes total submission-to-publication time as approximately 4–6 months, subject to revisions and reviewer availability.

Journal Information at a Glance

What This Page Covers

• Burapha Science Journal aims, scope and scientific subject coverage
• Scopus acceptance, source identification and metric-verification cautions
• Article types, languages, frequency and editorial leadership
• Manuscript preparation, references and submission workflow
• Single-blind peer review, revisions and indicative publication timeline
• Open-access, copyright and fee arrangements
• Publication ethics, human/animal research and generative-AI rules
• A practical journal-fit and publication-readiness checklist
• Ethical Contentxprtz support before and after peer review

Methodology and Source Note

This profile was prepared from the journal’s current ThaiJO pages, its official legacy archive, the journal’s April 2026 Scopus announcement, the ISSN International Centre records, and the Scopus Source ID supplied with the journal record. Where current authoritative metric values could not be verified, they are deliberately not estimated.

Journal policies, editorial teams, indexing coverage, fees and metrics can change. Before acting on a university requirement, authors should revisit the official Burapha Science Journal website, the Scopus source profile and the journal’s latest author instructions.

What Is Burapha Science Journal?

BSJ is a university-published scientific journal designed to disseminate original and scholarly work across a wide range of science and technology disciplines. Its current journal information describes it as a multidisciplinary platform with both local and international ambitions. The journal began in 1996, moved to online-only publication in 2014, increased its frequency to three issues per year in 2016, and later shifted its editorial workflow to the ThaiJO environment.

The journal’s current issue demonstrates the breadth of that remit. Recent 2026 papers include phytoplankton ecology, organic synthesis, PM2.5 estimation using remote sensing, variance testing, wastewater phosphate adsorption, insect biology, nonlinear numerical methods, graph theory, machine-learning land-cover classification, thin-film materials, food chemistry, computer vision and large-language-model-assisted reporting. For a prospective author, this breadth is useful evidence that BSJ is genuinely multidisciplinary rather than narrowly confined to one branch of science.

At the same time, breadth does not mean that any scientific manuscript will fit. The editorial screening stage explicitly checks alignment with the journal’s scope and formatting rules. A paper should therefore have a clear scientific contribution, a methodologically defensible design and an audience that overlaps with the journal’s current subject communities.

Burapha Science Journal Aims and Scope

The journal states that its purpose is to advance research and disseminate high-quality scholarly work that supports scientific progress and practical application. Its official scope is organised around several broad clusters.

Biological and life sciences

Relevant work can include biology, microbiology, biochemistry and biotechnology. Recent issues also show ecological, taxonomic, agricultural and laboratory-biological applications. Manuscripts should demonstrate a clear scientific question, reproducible methods and a contribution that extends beyond a purely descriptive local report unless the local evidence has wider scientific significance.

Food and aquatic sciences

The scope includes nutrition, food processing, food technology and food safety, alongside marine ecology, aquaculture and physical oceanography. This combination makes the journal potentially relevant for interdisciplinary studies involving coastal systems, fisheries, food resources, marine bioactive compounds or environmental pressures affecting aquatic production.

Physical, mathematical and computational sciences

Physics, chemistry, materials science, mathematics and statistics are explicitly represented. The current issue also demonstrates interest in numerical analysis, graph theory and applied statistical testing. Computer science, GIS, remote sensing, bioinformatics and data-driven methods are also within the stated interdisciplinary and applied-science coverage.

Environmental and applied science

Environmental science appears both in the formal scope and in recent published content. Applied studies may be suitable when they retain a strong scientific basis—for example, environmental monitoring, adsorption, remote sensing, materials performance, ecological assessment or data-intensive scientific modelling.

Editorial interpretation: the scope is broad enough to support interdisciplinary work, but a submission is stronger when its scientific problem, methods and discussion clearly speak to one or more recurring areas in the journal. Before submission, compare your manuscript with at least five recent BSJ papers in the closest subject area.

Article Types and Who Should Consider Submitting

The current journal information lists two primary categories. Research Articles are original investigations built around a defined research problem or hypothesis, systematic methods, analysed results and a discussion that contributes to knowledge or practice. Academic Papers focus more on scholarly synthesis, conceptual frameworks, theoretical discussion or systematic application of specialised knowledge.

BSJ may be worth considering for researchers in Thailand and internationally whose work sits within its scientific scope, particularly where the paper connects rigorous science with practical or regional relevance. It can also be relevant for early-career researchers and PhD scholars who need a multidisciplinary venue and whose institutional requirements accept the journal’s current indexing position.

A manuscript is less likely to be suitable when it is primarily outside science and technology, lacks a clear scientific contribution, does not use an appropriate research design, is already published or under consideration elsewhere, or cannot be prepared to the journal’s required format.

Scopus Indexing: What Researchers Should Verify in 2026

On 21 April 2026, BSJ announced that it had been officially accepted for Scopus inclusion, effective 19 April 2026. The same notice said the journal was awaiting Elsevier’s next steps for content setup. This is the most authoritative current statement located on the journal’s own site.

The source record supplied for this article gives Scopus Source ID 21101442598. For authors, the practical issue is not simply whether the word “Scopus” appears on a journal page. You should verify three separate points: the current source status, the years/issues covered, and whether your university’s rule is based on journal inclusion, article-level indexing, quartile or another metric.

No current CiteScore, SJR, SNIP or Scopus quartile is stated here because an authoritative value for the newly accepted source was not independently verified. New indexing status can precede the appearance of stable annual metrics. Avoid using a third-party “impact score” or unofficial quartile as a substitute for the current Scopus source record.

Publication Frequency, Language and Current Editorial Leadership

BSJ publishes three issues each year: January–April, May–August and September–December. The current archive shows Volume 31 No. 2 for May–August 2026 in progress, confirming active publication.

The journal accepts both Thai and English. For Thai manuscripts, the current policy requires an extended English abstract and strong English metadata, including titles, abstracts, figures, tables and keywords, together with Romanized citations. This policy is especially relevant to authors seeking international discoverability.

The current editorial-team page names Klaokwan Srisook of the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Burapha University as Editor-in-Chief, with Sutin Kingtong as Associate Editor. The journal also lists section editors across mathematics, chemistry, biology, food science, microbiology, physics, GIS and data science, together with an international editorial board.

Manuscript Preparation and Submission Requirements

The current submission page instructs authors to prepare the manuscript using the official BSJ template. Separate English and Thai article templates are linked from the journal site, and the reference system is described as Name-Year according to international standards.

• The manuscript must not have been published previously or be under consideration by another journal.
• The current submission checklist accepts OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or RTF files.
• Reference URLs should be supplied where available.
• Previously published figures, tables or other materials require permission from the copyright holder.
• The manuscript must follow the journal’s current style and bibliographic requirements.
• Submission is made electronically through the ThaiJO system after registration/login.

As a publication-readiness step, do not format only at the end. Start from the journal’s current template before final language editing so headings, tables, figure placement, references and metadata can be reviewed in their intended structure.

Peer Review and Publication Timeline

The current peer-review page describes a single-blind process. The Editor-in-Chief first screens the submission for scope and guideline compliance. Suitable papers are assigned to a specialist Section Editor, who invites at least three independent reviewers who are not affiliated with the authors’ institutions.

These are journal-stated indicative durations rather than a guarantee for every manuscript. A manuscript requiring a second review round can add roughly four weeks according to the current process page.

Open Access, Copyright and Publication Fees

BSJ provides immediate open access to its content. The journal’s current About page describes a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 arrangement, while the current Submissions page contains a copyright notice referring to a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. Because those two official pages are not fully aligned, authors should review the licence displayed for the specific issue/article and the latest copyright notice before re-use or deposit decisions.

The fee position is clearer: the current site states that there are no submission fees and no article processing charges. Authors should still reconfirm the fee page at the point of submission because publication policies can change.

Publication Ethics, Research Integrity and Generative AI

The journal states that it follows principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Its ethics page addresses editorial impartiality, confidentiality, plagiarism and misconduct, conflicts of interest, author accountability, reviewer objectivity, data integrity and corrective actions such as retractions or corrections.

For research involving human participants, the current policy requires appropriate ethics approval, identifies the Declaration of Helsinki as a relevant framework, and expects the manuscript to state the approving ethics body and approval number together with informed consent. Animal research must comply with relevant institutional/national rules and identify the approving animal-care ethics body.

Generative AI rule

BSJ currently permits tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude only for language enhancement, including grammar, sentence clarity and readability. Authors must review and approve the final text and disclose the AI assistance. The journal prohibits using AI to generate major scientific sections or interpret research results, and AI cannot be listed as an author.

How to Decide Whether Burapha Science Journal Fits Your Manuscript

A journal decision should combine verified facts with manuscript-level judgement. Use the following checklist before investing time in full formatting:

1. Scope fit: Can you name a specific BSJ subject cluster that matches the paper?
2. Recent-content fit: Do recent BSJ articles publish similar questions, methods or data types?
3. Article-type fit: Is your work clearly a Research Article or Academic Paper under the current descriptions?
4. Audience fit: Would BSJ readers understand why the finding matters beyond your immediate project?
5. Methodological readiness: Are the design, analysis, ethics and data reporting strong enough for external scientific review?
6. Language readiness: Is the English—or required English metadata for a Thai manuscript—clear and publication-ready?
7. Institutional fit: Does your university accept the journal’s current Scopus/indexing status for your degree, promotion or funding requirement?
8. Timeline fit: Can you accommodate the journal’s approximate 4–6 month pathway and possible revision rounds?

Practical Examples of Journal-Fit Decisions

Example 1: Environmental remote-sensing study

A manuscript estimating air pollution or land-cover change using satellite data may fit because BSJ explicitly includes GIS, environmental science and computer science, and recent issues show remote-sensing and land-use modelling. The author should still compare methods and contribution with recent papers rather than relying on scope wording alone.

Example 2: Food-science experiment

A controlled study on food processing, physicochemical properties, food safety or bioactive compounds is directly aligned with the stated food-science scope. Strong analytical methods, clear controls and practical significance would be central to readiness.

Example 3: Pure or applied mathematics paper

Mathematics and statistics are named subject areas, and recent issues include graph theory, numerical methods and statistical testing. A mathematically rigorous manuscript may therefore fit, but authors should check whether the level and style resemble current BSJ mathematical papers.

Example 4: Business-management manuscript

A conventional management, marketing or organisational-behaviour paper would generally fall outside the published science scope unless its central contribution is genuinely rooted in one of the journal’s scientific or computational areas. Choosing a business or social-science journal would usually be more appropriate.

How to Prepare a Stronger Journal-Aligned Manuscript

Although not every step below is a journal-specific requirement, each is a useful publication-readiness practice for BSJ:

• Download the current English or Thai manuscript template before final editing.
• Read several papers from the latest two or three issues in your closest field.
• State the research problem and contribution early and precisely.
• Ensure methods are reproducible and the statistical or computational approach is justified.
• Connect the discussion to literature beyond the immediate local setting where appropriate.
• Check all figures, tables, units, abbreviations and scientific names consistently.
• Use the required Name-Year reference system and verify every reference against the source.
• Prepare ethics, conflict-of-interest, funding, data and AI-use statements where applicable.
• For revisions, answer reviewer comments point by point, distinguishing changes made from respectfully justified disagreements.

How Contentxprtz Can Support Publication Readiness

Contentxprtz can support researchers with ethical manuscript preparation before submission to Burapha Science Journal. Relevant assistance may include academic editing, language polishing, journal-template formatting, reference and citation consistency, manuscript assessment, cover-letter editing and reviewer-response editing.

The support is designed to improve clarity, structure and compliance without replacing the researcher’s scientific responsibility. Contentxprtz does not guarantee journal acceptance, peer-review outcomes, Scopus indexing of a particular article or publication within a particular timeframe. The author remains responsible for the research, data, interpretation, authorship, disclosures and final submission.

For journal-publication support, see Contentxprtz Journal Publication Services.

Author Submission Checklist

• Confirm the journal’s current Scopus source status and coverage if your institution requires it.
• Confirm the manuscript is within the journal’s scientific scope.
• Select the correct Research Article or Academic Paper category.
• Use the latest official BSJ template and Name-Year references.
• Check that the manuscript is not submitted or published elsewhere.
• Secure permission for reused figures, tables or other copyrighted material.
• Include required ethics approvals and research-integrity statements.
• Disclose permitted AI-assisted language enhancement where used.
• Check English metadata carefully, especially for Thai-language manuscripts.
• Review the current submission portal and fee/copyright information immediately before submission.

Summary

Burapha Science Journal is an active, multidisciplinary science journal of the Faculty of Science, Burapha University. Its broad scope, bilingual publication model, open-access policy, three-issue annual schedule and no-fee publication model may make it relevant to researchers across biological, food, aquatic, physical, mathematical, computational, environmental and applied sciences.

Its April 2026 Scopus acceptance is a significant development, but researchers should distinguish acceptance for inclusion from the live indexing status of specific content and from later citation metrics. Before submission, verify the current Scopus profile, read recent BSJ papers, download the latest journal template and ensure your manuscript satisfies the journal’s scientific, ethical and formatting expectations.

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