Biology Open


Biology Open is an online-only peer-reviewed Open Access scientific journal published by The Company of Biologists. It launched in 2011 and publishes original research in all areas of the biological and biomedical sciences. Biology Open is partnered with Publons, is part of the Review Commons initiative and has two-way integration with bioRxiv.

Content

Biology Open considers original research, Methods & Techniques papers, papers on computational analysis, replication studies and reports presenting negative results.
The journal operates on a continuous publication model. The final version of record is immediately released online as soon as it is ready.
All papers are published as Open Access articles under the CC-BY licence.

Abstracting and indexing

Biology Open is abstracted and/or indexed by:
It is a member of OASPA and is indexed in the DOAJ.
Biology Open is a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment.

Management

The founding Editor-in-Chief was Jordan Raff, from 2011-2018.
Steven Kelly has been the Editor-in-Chief since 2018.