Prof. Andre J. van Wijnen
University of Vermont, USA
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 51 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
237 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
Sections 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
Editor-in-Chief
Section Editor
Prof. Marcel Karperien
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Section Editor
Prof. Valerio Napolioni
University of Camerino, Italy
Section Editor
Prof. Eric A. Lewallen
Hampton University, USA
Prof. Sir Walter Bodmer
University of Oxford, UK
Prof. Hikmet Budak
University of Nebraska, USA
Prof. Robert Rucker
University of California Davis, USA
Prof. Salam A. Ibrahim
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA
Prof. Mariano Bizzarri
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Prof. Daisuke Yabe
Gifu University, Japan
Prof. Renato Fani
University of Florence, Italy
Prof. Sergei Ostroumov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Prof. Filippo Camerota
Sapienza University of Roma, Italy
Prof. Bożena Kamińska
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland
Prof. Marko Sabovljević
University of Belgrade, Serbia; University in Košice, Slovakia
Prof. Dr. Önder Pekcan
Kadir Has University, Turkey
Prof. Cynthia M. Simbulan-Rosenthal
Georgetown University, USA
Dr. Christopher L. Brown
UN/FAO World Fisheries University, South Korea
Prof. Brandon Lucke-Wold
University of Florida, USA
Dr. César Augusto Salinas Zavala
Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, Mexico
Prof. Ares Pasipoularides
Duke University School of Medicine, USA
Prof. Irina V. Balalaeva
Lobachevsky University, Russia
Prof. Franco Palla
University of Palermo, Italy
Prof. Giuseppe Lanza
University of Catania, Italy
Dr. Maheedhar Kodali
Texas A&M Health Science Center, USA
Dr. Raúl Ortiz-Pulido
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Mexico
Dr. Gabriel Gutiérrez Ospina
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Prof. Biswaranjan Paital
Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, India
Prof. Menha Swellam
National Research Center, Egypt
Prof. Cheemeng Tan
University of California Davis, USA
Prof. Junaith S. Mohamed
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
Prof. Robert Ohgami
University of Utah, USA
Prof. Ahmed G Hegazi
National Research Center, Egypt
Prof. Jean-Marie Exbrayat
Lyon Catholic University, France
Prof. Rajagopal Senthilkumar
REVA University, India
Dr. Dražen Đuričić
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. Chun-Wei Tung
National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Prof. Erhan Ünlü
Dicle University, Turkey
Prof. Kalpana Pai
Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
Prof. Ziyad S. Haidar
Universidad de los Andes, Chile
Prof. Stefano Cagnin
University of Padova, Italy
Prof. Philippe Sessou
University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Dr. Arul Jose Polpass
Harvard University, USA
Dr. Cesar Marcial Escobedo-Bonilla
Instituto Politecnico Nacional-CIIDIR Sinaloa, Mexico
Prof. Somayeh Bahrami
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran
Prof. Alireza Chavshin
Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Dr. Eduardo I. Faúndez
University of Magallanes, Chile
Dr. Subramanyam Dasari
Indiana University, USA
Prof. Olen R. Brown
University of Missouri, USA
Prof. Cosmas Nathanailides
University of Ioannina, Greece
Prof. Gavin McStay
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Prof. Sai-Leung Ng
Chinese Culture University, Taiwan
Prof. Karanjit Kooner
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, USA
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Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture Multan, Pakistan
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BRAC University, Bangladesh
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State University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Prof. Andrew Chih Wei Huang
Fo Guang University, Taiwan
Dr. Muhammad Ehsan
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Prof. Pavel Kraikivski
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Prof. Olajide Mark Sogunle
Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria
Prof. Rosaria Viscecchia
University of Foggia, Italy
Dr. Georgios Panos
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Dr. Maya Rocha-Ortega
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Prof. Dr. Tulay Irez
Yeni Yüzyıl University, Turkey
Prof. Sergey I. Kolesnikov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Prof. Sameer H. Qari
Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Mohammad Mehdizadeh
University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran
Dr. Ravindra Kumar
Washington University at St. Louis, USA
Prof. Marwa A. A. Fayed
University of Sadat City, Egypt
Prof. Lyre Murao
University of the Philippines Mindanao, Philippines
Prof. Wafai Z. A. Mikhail
Cairo University, Egypt
Dr. Elena Marrocchino
University of Ferrara, Italy
Dr. Engin Berber
Cleveland Clinic, USA
Dr. Mukesh Verma
National Jewish Health, USA
Dr. Eric A. Ben-David
ORT Braude - College of Engineering, Israel
Dr. Biagio Palmisano
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Prof. Manas Bajpai
NIMS University, India
Dr. Olesya T. Shevchouk
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Dr. Hisham Abdelrahman
Auburn University, USA
Prof. Gustavo Adolfo Sandoval Peña
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru
Prof. Rafael De Armas
Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay
Prof. Cesar Rogério Leal do Amaral
Rio de Janeiro State University, Brasil
Dr. Hend Omar Mohamed
Plant Protection Research Institut, Egypt
Mr. Kashif Hussain
HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, Pakistan
Dr. Cafer Türkmen
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
Praise for Academia.edu Publishing
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 237 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
