Royal Society Open Science
Last updated ISSN 2054-5703
Royal Society Open Science is published by Royal Society in agricultural and biological sciences. It is open access. The article processing charge is $1,471.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Royal Society Open Science concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Plant and animal studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Key facts
| Publisher | Royal Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2054-5703 |
| Subject area | Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $1,471 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 7,527 |
| Publishing since | 1947 |
| Journal website | royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rsos |
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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