Trends (journals)

Overview
Trends is a series of scientific journals owned by Elsevier that publish review articles in a range of areas of biology. They are currently part of Elsevier's Cell Press group of journals.

The Trends series was founded in 1976 with Trends in Biochemical Sciences (TIBS), rapidly followed by Trends in Neurosciences (TINS), Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (TIPS) and Immunology Today. Swift expansion of the formula during the 1980s and 1990s included non-biological titles, Trends in Food Science and Technology and Trends in Polymer Science, which were later discontinued or removed from the series.

Immunology Today, Parasitology Today and Molecular Medicine Today changed their names to Trends in... in 2001. Drug Discovery Today was spun off as an independent brand.

Originally published in Cambridge, UK, the Trends Editorial Office moved to London during the mid-1990s, after Elsevier acquired Pergamon Press.

Titles
The current set of Trends journals are:


 * Trends in Biochemical Sciences (TIBS) (biochemistry) (1976)
 * Trends in Biotechnology (biotechnology) (1983)
 * Trends in Cell Biology (cell biology) (1991)
 * Trends in Cognitive Sciences (cognitive science) (1997)
 * Trends in Ecology & Evolution (TREE) (evolutionary ecology) (1986)
 * Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism (endocrinology and metabolism) (1990)
 * Trends in Genetics (TIG) (genetics) (1985)
 * Trends in Immunology (immunology) (1980) -- formerly Immunology Today
 * Trends in Microbiology (TIM) (microbiology) (1993)
 * Trends in Molecular Medicine (molecular medicine) (1995) -- formerly Molecular Medicine Today
 * Trends in Neurosciences (TINS) (neuroscience) (1978)
 * Trends in Parasitology (parasitology) (1985) -- formerly Parasitology Today
 * Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (TIPS) (pharmacology) (1979)
 * Trends in Plant Science (botany) (1996)

All are published monthly, except Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism which has ten issues per year.