Science Advances
Last updated ISSN 2375-2548
Science Advances is published by American Association for the Advancement of Science in engineering. It is open access. The article processing charge is $4,500.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Science Advances concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- RNA Research and Splicing
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Key facts
| Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2375-2548 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $4,500 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 20,282 |
| Publishing since | 1879 |
| Journal website | www.science.org/journal/sciadv |
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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