Journal of Biology

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Journal of Biology 
Discipline Biology
Language English
Publication details
Publication history
2002-2010
Publisher
Hybrid
Standard abbreviations
J. Biol.
Indexing
CODEN JBOIAW
ISSN 1478-5854  (print)
1475-4924  (web)
LCCN 2002248523
OCLC  no. 741465271
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The Journal of Biology was a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by BioMed Central. It was established in 2002 with the aim to provide an alternative to biology journals with high-impact factor such as Nature , Science , and Cell . Because of stringent selection criteria, it published only a few research articles per year, only four in 2007, for example, with the rest being comment and short review articles. The research articles were published as open access and many of these research articles were highly cited.

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References

  1. Webb, Penelope; Moylan, Elizabeth (29 June 2007). "Journal of Biology celebrates its fifth anniversary". Journal of Biology. 6 (5). doi:10.1186/jbiol57.