Andre van Wijnen
University of Vermont
Editor-in-Chief
Welcome to
Academia Biology
A new open access journal in biology brought to you by Academia.edu
ISSN: 2837-4010
Welcome to
Academia Biology
A new open access journal in biology brought to you by Academia.edu
ISSN: 2837-4010
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 221 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 represents a forum for the publication of scientific progress in biology that is fundamentally sound, prioritized by editorial standards and supported by constructive peer review. Academia Biology papers are universally accessible based on open access and broadly advertised within the global Academia network. The journal will consider new research papers, reviews of published work and expert perspectives in all fields associated with biology. Research papers are expected to provide solid conceptual or technical advances and have utility for other investigators. The journal also represents a broad platform for critical discussions among biologists of all academic ranks and disciplines.
The scope of Academia Biology encompasses all fundamental, translational and applied biological and biomedical disciplines, including any topic associated with biochemistry, molecular, cell & developmental biology, microbiology & virology, plant biology, evolution & ecology, physiology, genetics, molecular pathology, regenerative medicine & precision medicine. Furthermore, Academia Biology will consider topics associated with closely related fields including biotechnology, agricultural & aquatic biology, biomedical engineering, biophysics, bioinformatics, mathematical biology, bioethics, biological history, chemical biology & pharmacology, provided that the advance in knowledge or methodology is directly relevant to biology.
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.
47 Million+
papers hosted in our network
221 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
Sir Walter Bodmer
University of Oxford
Hikmet Budak
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Robert B Rucker
University of California Davis
Salam A. Ibrahim
North Carolina A&T State University
Mariano Bizzarri
Sapienza University of Rome
Daisuke Yabe
Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine
Sergei A. Ostroumov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Filippo Camerota
Sapienza University of Roma
Önder Mehmet Pekcan
Kadir Has University
Christopher L. Brown
Pukyong National University
Brandon Lucke-Wold
University of Florida
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 221 million people have joined Academia globally, and researchers have uploaded 47 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
