Biological Trace Element Research is an international journal dedicated to publishing high-quality articles that advance knowledge of the importance and roles of trace elements for the health and well-being of humans and animals. This knowledge may be conveyed by original research articles, brief communications, and reviews, including those describing negative results from well-preformed experiments giving unexpected or unusual findings.     

 Classical experiments using animal and human models to study deficiency, supra-nutritional, pharmacological, and toxicological aspects of trace elements are especially desired. In vitro, cell culture and microbial models that help in defining the biochemical and physiological roles of trace elements are also welcomed.  Studies involving plant models are invited if they are related to the provision of trace elements to animals and humans.  Articles involving the importance of trace elements for plant growth, composition, and reproduction will be considered more suitable for other journals focusing on that area of science.

Submission of manuscripts describing the use of an agent to treat trace element-induced toxicity are discouraged unless the treatment provides information of the mechanism of the trace-element induced toxicity or the agent is specially designed, such as a newly designed chelating ligand, to attempt to treat the trace-element-induced toxicity.

Biological Trace Element Research is published monthly - online -  to provide timely and useful information to nutritionists, physiologists, biochemists, chemists, and toxicologists about the biological importance of trace elements.

Co-Editors in Chief:
Dr. Forrest H. Nielsen, USDA ARS, Grand Forks, ND
Dr. John B. Vincent, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Editorial Board:
N. Agalakova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
E. Baran, Universidad de La Plata, Argentina
J. Brown, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
J. Cao, US Department of Agriculture, Grand Forks, ND
W.Cheng, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
M. Costa, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
A. Diamond, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
N. DiMarco, Texas Women's University, Denton, TX
C. Eckhert, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
M. El Muayed, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
E. Gaffney-Stomberg, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA
E. González-Vergara, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla Mexico
A. Gorustovich, National Research Council, Salta, Argentina
S. S. Hakki, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey
C. Han, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
G. Hill, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
A. Hruby, Harvard University, Boston, MA
R. Jugdaohsingh, Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Z. Krejpcio, University of Life Sciences in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
K. Kubena, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
S. Li, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
J. Matta, Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, Puerto Rico
J. McClung, US Army Research Institue of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA
D. M. Medeiros, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
B. Momcilovic, Institute for Research and Development of Sustainable Ecosystems, Zagreb, Croatia
M. Navarro-Alarcon, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
M. Naziroglu, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey
M.Olivares, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
S. Oter, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey
M. Ruz, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
A. Skalny, Medical Institution of RUDN University, Moscow, Russia
J. Spears, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
D. Sun, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, China
R. Sunde, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Y.Tohno, Ching Mai University, Ching Mai, Thailand
B. Turan, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
K. Usuda, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan
J. Valentine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
S. Xu, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, ChinaG. Yamada, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
L. Yan, US Department of Agriculture, Grand Forks, ND
K. Yokoi, Seitoku University Graduate School, Chiba, Japan
Y. Zhang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
J. Zhu, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou,Zhejiang, China
Past Editor-in-Chief: (deceased): Gerhard N. Schrauzer, San Diego, CA