Sir Walter Bodmer
University of Oxford
Welcome to Academia Biology
A new open access journal in biology brought to you by Academia.edu
About Academia Biology
Fast publishing in the field of biology
Our goal is for peer review, the editorial process, and publication to happen within four weeks of submission.
Robust peer review and editorial process
Each paper will be peer reviewed by two scientists working in the field of the paper. A member of Academia Biology's Editorial Board will oversee the peer review process.
Broad and accurate dissemination
Each paper published in Academia Biology will be distributed to the relevant people within Academia’s global network of 180 million people.
Discussion, engagement, & community exchange
After publishing a paper, authors can increase the impact of their paper by engaging with questions about the paper from scientists in Academia’s community.
Aims & Scope
Academia Biology is an innovative open access journal publishing original research and review articles covering all areas of the biological sciences. The editors welcome interdisciplinary submissions from the cutting edge of biological research encouraging those that drive connectivity between disciplines including but not limited to molecular cell biology, neuroscience, immunology, drug discovery and biochemistry. By engaging the Academia.edu community, the global team of Academia Biology editors will provide authors with rapid and robust single-blind peer review feedback prior to publication.
The journal will apply for indexing and will be disseminated using services requested by the community.
Our mission is to accelerate the world's research.
Our mission to accelerate the world's research.
Following the success of Academia Letters – an online platform for publishing and sharing short-form research articles, including orphaned findings and case studies – Academia.edu is launching a suite of open access journals for the global academic community. The journals will provide new opportunities to disseminate research findings to a wide audience and will focus on key subject areas in biology and medicine.
Each journal will mobilize its global research community to drive debate and conversation around submitted research. The conversation will be led by an authoritative Editor-in-Chief, who will work alongside a global team of editors. This editorial team will facilitate industry leading, rapid and robust single-blind peer review by engaging the extensive Academia.edu audience.
The journals will apply for indexing by all major services and will be eligible for an Impact Factor in 2025.
36 Million+
papers hosted in our network
186 Million
registered users across hundreds of disciplines
2.4 Million
research topics added as tags to papers
42%
of the world's faculty use academia.edu
Used by academics at 16,909 universities
Topics Covered in Academia Biology
- Agricultural Sciences
- Animal Science and Zoology
- Aquatic Science
- Biochemistry
- Biophysics
- Biotechnology
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Ecology
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Genetics
- Immunology
- Insect Science
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology
- Molecular Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Parasitology
- Plant Science
- Soil Science
- Structural Biology
- Virology
Academic Editors
Mariano Bizzarri
Sapienza University of Rome
Hikmet Budak
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Önder Mehmet Pekca
Kadir Has University
Ares Pasipoularides
Duke University
Robert Ohgami
University of Utah
Gabriel Gutiérrez Ospina
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Alireza Chavshin
Urmia University of Medical Sciences
Gavin McStay
Liverpool John Moores University
Tulay Irez
Istanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University
Ziyad S. Haidar
Universidad de los Andes
Marwa A.A. Fayed
University of Sadat City
Praise for Academia Letters
Publishing with Academia Letters was great. I had this short essay and I couldn’t set the time aside to work on it. This is a great opportunity–it will go out there and people will read it.
Faculty, Tel Aviv University
Academia Letters has the potential to become a great hit, and a great mover of science towards faster, more open, and more progressive ways of scholarship.
Faculty, University of Melbourne
Richard Price
founder and ceo
I founded Academia.edu when I was at Oxford, finishing my doctorate in the philosophy of perception. I conceived of Academia as a global platform where academics could connect and share research.
Today 180 million people have joined Academia globally, and researchers have uploaded 39 million papers to their profiles.
Two of Academia's values are speed and openness. We want to ensure that a paper is routed from author to reader as quickly as possible; and we want every paper, ever written, on the internet, available for free.
The academic publishing process has historically been slow and closed. My first paper took 3 years to come out: from submission to publication. The average time from submission to publication is ~12 months.
Our goal with our journal, Academia Biology, and our future journals, is to create journals that are fast, open, and robust.
Fast means 4 week turnaround times: peer review, editorial, and publication completed in four weeks from the time of submission.
Open means that the journals will be open access: papers will be free to read, and authors will pay an article processing charge at the time of publication.
Robust means that we will use our AI technologies to identify the most relevant reviewers from the Academia network for any given paper. We will ask at least two relevant peer reviewers to review a paper before the paper is published. The peer review process will be overseen by the Editorial Board of senior scientists.
With Academia Biology, and future Academia journals, we intend to introduce a new era of fast, open and robust academic publishing.
Sincerely,
D.Phil, University of Oxford
