Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
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Genome Biol. |
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Discipline | Genomics |
Language | English |
Edited by | Louisa Flintoft |
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Publisher | |
Publication history
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2000–present |
Frequency | Continuous publication |
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License | CC BY 4.0 |
11.313 | |
Indexing | |
ISSN |
1474-760X (print) 1465-6906 (web) |
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Genome Biology is a fully open access scientific journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed research in genomics. It is published by BioMed Central (BMC), and is currently the BMC journal with the highest impact factor. The journal has an international editorial board of researchers.
Authors and peer reviewers are asked to disclose competing interests.
The journal is supported in part by advertising.
The journal has a (2015) impact factor of 11.313 as tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI).
The journal aims to disseminate, discuss, and provide critical review of research in all areas of biology and biomedicine studied from a genomic and post-genomic perspective. Areas covered include, but are not limited to: sequence analysis; bioinformatics; insights into molecular, cellular and organismal biology; functional genomics; epigenomics; population genomics; proteomics; comparative biology and evolution; systems biology and network biology; genomics of disease; and medical genomics.
Categories of articles in the journal include:
Genome Biology is published online only. There is no physical printed version.
Accessibility to each article is free (by open access)
The journal charges a fee (article processing charge (APC); charged to the submitting author/s or institution) for each Research, Method or Software article that is accepted for publication. The latter fee covers the cost of processing and publishing articles