Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Open Biol. Language English Publication history 2011-present | Discipline Natural sciences Edited by David Glover | |
Publisher Royal Society (United Kingdom) | ||
Open Biology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Royal Society covering biology at the molecular and cellular levels. The first issue was published in September 2011 with an editorial about the launch of the journal. All papers are made freely available under an open access model immediately on publication. The editor-in-chief is David Glover (University of Cambridge).
Contents
Open Biology has an average turnaround time of 4 weeks from submission to a first decision.
Contents and themes
Submitted content is categorized under the following subject areas: biochemistry, bioinformatics, biophysics, biotechnology, cellular biology, developmental biology, genetics, genomics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, structural biology, synthetic biology and systems biology.
Open Biology publishes research articles, reviews, invited perspectives, commentaries, comments and invited replies.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, BIOSIS Previews, Scopus, and MEDLINE/PubMed. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 5.784.