Genes & Development
Last updated ISSN 0890-9369
Genes & Development is published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Genes & Development concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- RNA modifications and cancer
- DNA Repair Mechanisms
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
- Fungal and yeast genetics research
Key facts
| Publisher | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0890-9369, 1549-5477 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 8,842 |
| Publishing since | 1913 |
| Journal website | genesdev.cshlp.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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