Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Last updated ISSN 0080-4649
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences is published by Royal Society in agricultural and biological sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
Key facts
| Publisher | Royal Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0080-4649, 0962-8452, 1471-2954, 2053-9193 |
| Subject area | Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 20,438 |
| Publishing since | 1902 |
| Journal website | royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rspb |
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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