IMPROVE RESEARCH REPRODUCIBILITY
A peer-reviewed, open access protocol journal. Listed in Web of Science and PubMed Central
About
Bio-protocol is a peer-reviewed, open-access protocol journal. It was founded in 2011 by a group of researchers at Stanford University with a singular mission: improve research reproducibility by publishing high-quality, step-by-step life science protocols.
Learn moreBetween January 2024 and May 2026, 89% of 4,300 respondents who attempted experiments based on Bio-protocol articles reported success in reproducing the protocol.
Collaborating Journals
Recognizing the need for greater reproducibility in scientific research, our collaborating journals encourage their authors to publish step-by-step protocols in Bio-protocol.

Gregory Finnigan
Professor at Kansas State University
"The reviews we received from Bio-protocol were very insightful and greatly improved the clarity of our protocols."

Murugappan Sathappa
Research scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
"I truly appreciate the mission of Bio-protocol to publish protocols that can be reproduced by others."

Meenal Sinha
Associate specialist at UCSF
"Reviewing for Bio-protocol has been very rewarding on multiple levels. The Bio-protocol team is very professional and efficient."
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