Biology:Genome Biology

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Genome Biology  
|Subject |Discipline}}Genomics
LanguageEnglish
Edited byBarbara Cheifet
Publication details
History2000–present
Publisher
FrequencyContinuous publication
Full
LicenseCC BY 4.0
11.908 (2016)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Genome Biol.
Indexing
ISSN1474-760X (print)
1465-6906 (web)
Links

Genome Biology is a fully open access scientific journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed research in genomics. It is published by BioMed Central (BMC), and is currently the BMC journal with the highest impact factor.[1] The journal has an international editorial board of researchers.[2]

Authors and peer reviewers are asked to disclose competing interests.[3]

The journal is supported in part by advertising.

Impact factor

The journal has a (2016) impact factor of 11.908.[4]

Contents

The journal aims to disseminate, discuss, and provide critical review of research in all areas of biology and biomedicine studied from a genomic and post-genomic perspective. Areas covered include, but are not limited to: sequence analysis; bioinformatics; insights into molecular, cellular and organismal biology; functional genomics; epigenomics; population genomics; proteomics; comparative biology and evolution; systems biology and network biology; genomics of disease; and medical genomics. [5]

Categories of articles in the journal include:

  • Research: These are Peer reviewed research papers
  • Method: These are Peer reviewed papers describing new methods
  • Software: These are Peer reviewed papers describing new software tools
  • Commentary/Editorial: These are comments on scientific, political, and ethical issues relating to genomic research
  • Meeting report: These are summaries of information presented at conferences
  • Reviews and Opinion articles: These are also Peer reviewed

Publication format

Genome Biology is published online only. There is no physical printed version.[6]

Article accessibility

Accessibility to each article is free (by open access)

Sources of revenue

The journal charges a fee (article processing charge (APC); charged to the submitting author/s or institution) for each Research, Method or Software article that is accepted for publication.[7] The latter fee covers the cost of processing and publishing articles [8]

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