Acta Biotheoretica: Mathematical and philosophical foundations of biological and biomedical science is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is the official journal of the Jan van der Hoeven Society for Theoretical Biology. The editor-in-chief is F.J.A. Jacobs (Leiden University).

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Acta Biotheoretica

Discipline	Theoretical biology
Language	English
Edited by	F.J.A. Jacobs
Publication details
History	1935–present
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.185 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Acta Biotheor.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	ABIOAN
ISSN	0001-5342 (print) 1572-8358 (web)
LCCN	38011617
OCLC no.	41558734
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The journal's focus is theoretical biology which includes mathematical representation, treatment, and modeling for simulations and quantitative descriptions. The journal's focus also includes the philosophy of biology which emphasizes looking at the methods developed to form biological theory. Topical coverage also includes biomathematics, computational biology, genetics, ecology, and morphology.

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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.185.^[1] According to the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), the journal h-index is 35.^[2]