Development
Last updated ISSN 0950-1991
Development is published by The Company of Biologists in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Development concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Congenital heart defects research
- Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Reproductive Biology and Fertility
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction
Key facts
| Publisher | The Company of Biologists |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0950-1991, 1477-9129 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 20,707 |
| Publishing since | 1953 |
| Journal website | dev.biologists.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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