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BMC Biology

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Open access

Overview

BMC Biology is a selective journal of the BMC series, publishing research and commissioned content across all areas of biology. Our in-house professional editors work with an Editorial Board of international experts to assess papers with a publication policy that combines selection for broad interest and importance. Our commitment to serve authors and the community well underlies policies such as scoop protection, portable peer review, consideration of manuscripts already posted to preprint servers, flexible formatting, and a range of article types that includes Registered Reports.  All articles published in BMC Biology are open access. Selected articles are promoted via press coverage, marketing campaigns, and social media.

 

Chief Editor
  • Graham Bell

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
4.5 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
5.4 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
6 days
Downloads
4.4M (2025)

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  • Reviews in BMC Biology

    BMC Biology publishes authoritative reviews on diverse topics. All reviews are open access and therefore free to read and share.

  • Join the Editorial Board

    We are recruiting Editorial Board Members with expertise across all areas of our scope to join us at BMC Biology. Reach out and apply.

  • Portable Peer Review

    To reduce time spent on serial submissions and iterative reviewing, BMC Biology offers to consider manuscripts on the basis of reviews received at other journals. We also support transfers of reviews obtained at BMC Global and Public Health to other journals, including those outside of BMC and Springer Nature. 

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1741-7007
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BFI List
  2. BIOSIS
  3. Baidu
  4. CAB Abstracts
  5. CLOCKSS
  6. CNKI
  7. CNPIEC
  8. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  9. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  10. DOAJ
  11. Dimensions
  12. EBSCO
  13. EMBiology
  14. Gale
  15. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  16. Google Scholar
  17. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  18. Medline
  19. Meta
  20. Naver
  21. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  22. Pathway Studio
  23. Portico
  24. ProQuest
  25. PubMedCentral
  26. SCImago
  27. SCOPUS
  28. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  29. TD Net Discovery Service
  30. Wanfang
  31. Zoological Record
  32. eLibrary.ru
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