Open Biology

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{{Infobox journal

| title = Open Biology

| cover = File:Open Biology cover.jpg

| discipline = Natural sciences

| abbreviation = Open Biol.

| editor = Jonathon Pines

| publisher = Royal Society

| country = United Kingdom

| frequency = Continuous

| history = 2011–present

| impact = 3.6

| impact-year = 2024

| openaccess = Yes

| license = CC-BY 4.0

| ISSN =

| eISSN = 2046-2441

| OCLC = 758836335

| LCCN =

| CODEN = OBPICQ

| website = https://royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rsob

| link1 = http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/current

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/by/year

| link2-name = Online archive

}}

Open Biology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Royal Society covering biology at the molecular and cellular levels.{{cite web |url=http://royalsociety.org/news/Worlds-oldest-scientific-publisher-breaks-new-ground-with-Open-Biology/ |title=World's oldest scientific publisher breaks new ground with Open Biology |publisher=Royal Society |work=royalsociety.org |accessdate=2012-02-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104055333/http://royalsociety.org/news/Worlds-oldest-scientific-publisher-breaks-new-ground-with-Open-Biology/ |archivedate=2012-01-04 |url-status=dead }} The first issue was published in September 2011 with an editorial about the launch of the journal.{{cite journal |doi=10.1098/rsob.110001 |title=Introducing Open Biology |year=2011 |last1=Glover |first1=D. |last2=Holt |first2=C. |last3=Johnson |first3=L. |last4=Parham |first4=P. |journal=Open Biology |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=110001|pmc=3352079 }} The editor-in-chief is Jonathon Pines (The Institute of Cancer Research) who was appointed in 2020.

Contents and themes

The journal publishes research articles, reviews, invited perspectives, commentaries, comments, and invited replies.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, BIOSIS Previews, Scopus, and Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 3.6.{{cite book |year=2024 |chapter=Open Biology |title=2023 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate |edition=Science |via=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports}}

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