About the Journal
Syntheses - Journal of Scientific Synthesis and Integration is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing research across the nature, physical, chemical, mathematical, earth, environmental, and life sciences. The journal provides a platform for scientific research that connects disciplines, integrates complementary perspectives, and develops new approaches to complex questions in science.
The name Syntheses reflects the journal's central principle: scientific progress often emerges through the integration of knowledge, methods, evidence, and perspectives from different scientific disciplines. Many of the most important questions in contemporary science cannot be adequately addressed within the boundaries of a single field. Syntheses therefore encourages research that establishes meaningful connections between scientific domains and produces knowledge that extends beyond conventional disciplinary frameworks.
The journal welcomes interdisciplinary contributions spanning the broad spectrum of the nature and life sciences, including but not limited to biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, earth sciences, environmental sciences, materials science, ecology, microbiology, molecular sciences, and related fields.
Aim and Scope
The primary aim of Syntheses is to promote interdisciplinary integration within the natural and life sciences and to provide an international forum for research that brings together different scientific traditions to address complex scientific questions.
Modern scientific problems increasingly require the interaction of multiple fields. Questions concerning climate and environmental change, biological complexity, molecular systems, materials, energy, biodiversity, computational modeling, planetary processes, and technological innovation frequently extend across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Syntheses therefore welcomes research in which interdisciplinary integration is substantive rather than merely descriptive. The journal particularly values studies in which concepts, theories, experimental approaches, computational methods, analytical techniques, or datasets from different scientific fields are combined to generate new knowledge.
The journal welcomes research that:
- integrates concepts, theories, or methods from multiple scientific disciplines;
- combines experimental, observational, theoretical, computational, or mathematical approaches;
- connects molecular, cellular, organismal, ecological, environmental, or planetary levels of analysis;
- develops interdisciplinary models for complex natural phenomena;
- integrates biological, chemical, physical, mathematical, or computational perspectives;
- applies methods or technologies developed in one scientific field to questions in another;
- combines empirical evidence from different scientific domains;
- develops new methodologies through interdisciplinary collaboration;
- investigates complex systems that cannot be adequately understood through a single discipline;
- connects fundamental scientific research with emerging interdisciplinary applications;
- synthesizes evidence from multiple areas of the natural and life sciences;
- develops new conceptual frameworks emerging from interactions between scientific fields; and
- contributes to the integration and advancement of scientific knowledge.
Scientific Areas
Syntheses is intentionally broad in scope while remaining focused on the nature, physical, chemical, earth, environmental, and life sciences.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Biological and Life Sciences
Molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, genomics, proteomics, microbiology, biotechnology, bioinformatics, systems biology, evolutionary biology, developmental biology, ecology, and related areas.
Chemistry and Chemical Sciences
Organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, materials chemistry, chemical biology, biochemistry, nanochemistry, and interdisciplinary chemical research.
Physics and Physical Sciences
Theoretical and experimental physics, condensed matter, statistical physics, astrophysics, biophysics, photonics, quantum science, materials physics, and related fields.
Mathematics and Computational Sciences
Applied mathematics, mathematical modeling, statistics, computational science, scientific computing, data-driven science, numerical methods, and interdisciplinary mathematical approaches.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Geology, geophysics, geochemistry, climatology, atmospheric science, hydrology, oceanography, environmental science, planetary science, and Earth-system research.
Materials and Nanoscience
Materials science, nanotechnology, nanomaterials, biomaterials, functional materials, advanced materials, and interdisciplinary approaches to the design and characterization of materials.
Ecology and Environmental Systems
Ecosystem science, biodiversity, conservation science, environmental change, ecological modeling, biogeochemistry, and interactions between biological and physical systems.
Interdisciplinary Scientific Research
Syntheses particularly encourages research situated at the interfaces between scientific disciplines, including areas such as:
- Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Chemical biology
- Bioinformatics
- Systems biology
- Computational biology
- Mathematical biology
- Biomedical sciences
- Nanobiotechnology
- Materials chemistry
- Environmental chemistry
- Geochemistry
- Biogeochemistry
- Ecological modeling
- Computational physics
- Earth-system science
- Climate science
- Data-driven science
- Complex systems science
- Network science
- Artificial intelligence in scientific research
- Computational and theoretical approaches to natural phenomena
This list is illustrative rather than restrictive. Syntheses welcomes innovative interdisciplinary research addressing important scientific questions across the natural and life sciences.
Interdisciplinary Integration
A central characteristic of Syntheses is that interdisciplinarity should contribute directly to the scientific value of the work.
The journal therefore distinguishes interdisciplinary research from research that simply contains multiple scientific components. A strong interdisciplinary contribution should demonstrate a meaningful relationship between the contributing fields, whether through the integration of theories, experimental techniques, analytical methods, computational approaches, datasets, or scientific interpretations.
Syntheses welcomes both collaborative interdisciplinary research involving researchers from different scientific backgrounds and research conducted within a single laboratory or scientific group that meaningfully integrates multiple scientific approaches.
The journal also encourages research that creates connections between fundamental and applied science, theoretical and experimental approaches, and established and emerging scientific methodologies.
Types of Contributions
Syntheses considers a broad range of scholarly contributions, including:
- Original Research Articles
- Review Articles
- Systematic Reviews
- Integrative and Interdisciplinary Reviews
- Theoretical and Conceptual Articles
- Methodological Articles
- Research Perspectives
- Hypothesis and Theory Articles
- Short Research Articles
- Data- and Model-Driven Research
- Interdisciplinary Scientific Communications
All submissions are expected to demonstrate scientific rigor, methodological transparency, appropriate analysis, and a clear contribution to the relevant scientific literature.
Our Vision
Syntheses aims to become an international forum for scientific integration, bringing together researchers and ideas from across the natural and life sciences.
The journal seeks to encourage a scientific culture in which disciplinary boundaries serve as points of connection rather than barriers to discovery. By facilitating interaction among different scientific fields, Syntheses aims to support the development of new concepts, methodologies, models, and discoveries.
The journal ultimately seeks to contribute to a more integrated, connected, and comprehensive scientific understanding of the nature.
Syntheses
Integrating Knowledge. Advancing Science.
