Open Life Sciences
# Open Life Sciences

Open Life Sciences is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all areas of the life sciences. It was established in 2006 as the Central European Journal of Biology and co-published by Versita and Springer Science+Business Media. It obtained its current title in 2014 when it was moved completely to the De Gruyter imprint, at the same time switching to full open access. The editor-in-chief is Mariusz Ratajczak (University of Louisville).

## Abstracting and indexing

The journals is abstracted and indexed in:

* AGRICOLA
* Biological Abstracts
* BIOSIS Previews
* CAB Direct
* Chemical Abstracts Service
* Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences
* Elsevier Biobase
* EMBiology
* GeoRef
* Global Health
* ProQuest
* Science Citation Index Expanded
* Scopus
* The Zoological Record
* Web of Science
* PubMed

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 0.690.

