Journal of Biology [SEP] publisher
Journal of Biology
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
DOAJ (the Directory of Open Access Journals).
Publisher.
"Biology Open" is published by The Company of Biologists, a UK not-for-profit publisher of the international biological journals "Development, Journal of Cell Science", "Journal of Experimental Biology" and "Disease Models & Mechanisms".
History.
The Company of Biologists looked to address some big issues in publishing through the launch of its new journal Biology Open. The Company saw that some authors had a problem finding homes for