Biology:Biology Letters
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| |Subject |Discipline}} | Biology |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | David Beerling FRS |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2005–present |
| Publisher | Royal Society (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Hybrid | |
| 3.3 (2022) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Biol. Lett. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | BLLUAZ |
| ISSN | 1744-957X |
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)Biology Letters is a peer-reviewed, biological, scientific journal published by the Royal Society. It focuses on the rapid publication of short high quality research articles, reviews and opinion pieces across the biological sciences. Biology Letters has an average turnaround time of twenty four days from submission to a first decision.
The editor-in-chief is Professor David Beerling FRS (University of Sheffield[1]) who is supported by an international Editorial Board[2] of practising scientists.
Contents and themes
As well as the conventional, short research articles, Biology Letters has recently published Special Features and Mini Series.[3] While Special Features are a collection of up to 20 articles on a specific theme and published across multiple issues, Mini Series include up to six articles that are published in one issue. Examples of topics in these formats include ocean acidification,[4] fossils,[5] extinction,[6] enhanced rock weathering[7] and the evolutionary ecology of species ranges.[8]
Content in the journal is regularly covered in the mainstream and social media. At the time of writing, a paper on Goffin's cockatoos making tools to reach food [9] was featured in The Guardian, New Scientist, and The New York Times. Research describing the missing-link among dinosaurs [10] was reported by BBC News, CNN, and The Times.
A 2010 study of bumblebee behaviour by pupils from Blackawton Primary School[11][12] is the journal's most downloaded paper.
History
The journal was split off as a separate journal from the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences in 2005 after having been published as a supplement.[13] Originally it was published quarterly, then bimonthly, and since 2013 it has been published monthly. The journal publishes short articles from across biology online (printing each issue ceased at the start of 2020).
Indexing
The journal is indexed in Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.3, ranking it 32nd out of 92 journals in the category "Biology".[14]
External links
- List of journals published by the Royal Society
- Official website – The Royal Society
References
- ↑ "Professor David Beerling". https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/beerling.
- ↑ "Editorial Board". http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/editorial-board.
- ↑ "Special Features and Mini Series". http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/author-information#question2.
- ↑ "Ocean acidification". http://royalsocietypublishing.org/cc/ocean-acidification.
- ↑ "Putting fossils in trees: combining morphology, time, and molecules to estimate phylogenies and divergence times". http://royalsocietypublishing.org/cc/putting-fossils-in-trees.
- ↑ "Biology of extinction". http://royalsocietypublishing.org/cc/biology-of-extinction.
- ↑ "Enhanced rock weathering". http://royalsocietypublishing.org/cc/enhanced-rock-weathering.
- ↑ "Evolutionary ecology of species ranges". http://royalsocietypublishing.org/cc/mini-series-species-ranges.
- ↑ Auersperg, Alice M. I.; Borasinski, Stefan; Laumer, Isabelle; Kacelnik, Alex (2016). "Goffin's cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials". Biology Letters 12 (11): 20160689. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0689. PMID 27852942.
- ↑ Baron, Matthew G.; Barrett, Paul M. (2017). "A dinosaur missing-link? Chilesaurus and the early evolution of ornithischian dinosaurs". Biology Letters 13 (8): 20170220. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0220. PMID 28814574.
- ↑ "Primary school bee project published by Royal Society". BBC Online. 22 December 2010. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12051883.
- ↑ Blackawton Primary School (22 December 2010). "Blackawton bees – Biology Letters". Biology Letters (Royal Society) 7 (2): 168–172. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.1056. PMID 21177694.
- ↑ "Frequently asked questions | Biology Letters". http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/faq#question2.
- ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Biology". 2022 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2023.
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