BioScience
Last updated ISSN 0006-3568
BioScience is published by Oxford University Press in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $5,088.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BioScience concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0006-3568, 1525-3244 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $5,088 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 16,824 |
| Publishing since | 1963 |
| Journal website | bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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