RNA Biology

RNA Biology

Discipline	RNA
Language	English
Edited  by	Alain Laederach
Publication details
History	2004-present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Frequency	Annually
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	3.4 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	RNA Biol.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	1555-8584
LCCN	2003215637
OCLC  no.	53480455
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Journal homepage RNA Biology, Volume 22, Issue 1 (2025)

RNA Biology is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of ribonucleic acid (RNA) research. It is indexed for MEDLINE. The current editor-in-chief is Alain Laederach (University of North Carolina). Since 2022, it has converted to a full Open Access and exclusively online journal.

Wikipedia initiative

The journal launched a new section for descriptions of families of RNA molecules in December 2008 and requires contributing authors to also submit a draft article on the RNA family for publication in Wikipedia. The journal submits the draft article to peer review and then publish it in Wikipedia. This initiative is a collaboration between the journal and the consortium that produces the Rfam database of RNA families. ^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• MEDLINE/PubMed
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Scopus
• Web of Science
• DOAJ
• BIOSIS Previews
• Biological Abstracts
• Chemical Abstracts
• Reactions Weekly
• Biochemistry and Biophysics Citation Index

Journal metrics

• Impact factor - 3.4 (2024) (quartile Q2)
• 5-year impact factor - 3.9 (2024)
• CiteScore (Scopus) - 8.6 (2024) (quartile Q1)
• SNIP - 0.767 (2024)
• SJR - 1.651 (2024)

References

1. Butler, Declan (2008). "Publish in Wikipedia or perish". Nature . doi:10.1038/news.2008.1312.

External links

• Official website