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Genome Biology

Publishing model:
Open access

Overview

Genome Biology is a leading open access journal in biology and biomedicine research, with 9.4 Impact Factor and 14 days to first decision.

As the highest-ranked open access journal in its field, Genome Biology publishes outstanding research that advances the fields of biology and biomedicine from a genomic and post-genomic perspective. 

Our team of highly trained in-house Editors works with our Editorial Board of leading international experts to ensure that the journal is at the cutting edge of both scientific advances and community standards. The Editors engage regularly with researchers at conferences and institute visits.

Flexible formatting at first submission, transparent peer review, scoop protection (including preprints), transfers and portable peer review, and global article promotion are just a few of the ways we support our authors and the larger genomics community. Genome Biology is also an affiliate journal of the EMBO preprint peer review platform Review Commons.

Chief Editor
  • Veronique van den Berghe

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
9.4 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
16.3 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
13 days
Downloads
10.3M (2025)

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1474-760X
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. AGRICOLA
  2. ANVUR
  3. BFI List
  4. BIOSIS
  5. Baidu
  6. CAB Abstracts
  7. CLOCKSS
  8. CNKI
  9. CNPIEC
  10. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  11. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  12. DOAJ
  13. Dimensions
  14. EBSCO
  15. EMBASE
  16. EMBiology
  17. Gale
  18. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  19. Google Scholar
  20. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  21. Medline
  22. Meta
  23. Naver
  24. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  25. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  26. Portico
  27. ProQuest
  28. PubMedCentral
  29. Reaxys
  30. SCImago
  31. SCOPUS
  32. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  33. TD Net Discovery Service
  34. Wanfang
  35. Zoological Record
  36. eLibrary.ru
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