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"Think. Check. Submit." poster by an international initiative to help researchers avoid predatory publishing. Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing [1] [2] or deceptive publishing, [3] is an exploitative academic publishing business model, where the journal or publisher prioritizes self-interest at the expense of scholarship.
The impact factor relates to a specific time period; it is possible to calculate it for any desired period. For example, the JCR also includes a five-year impact factor, which is calculated by dividing the number of citations to the journal in a given year by the number of articles published in that journal in the previous five years. [14] [15]
This is a list of open-access journals by field. The list contains notable journals which have a policy of full open access. It does not include delayed open access journals, hybrid open access journals, or related collections or indexing services. True open-access journals can be split into two categories:
In any given year, the CiteScore of a journal is the number of citations, received in that year and in previous three years, for documents published in the journal during the total period (four years), divided by the total number of published documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters, and data papers) in the journal during the same four-year period: [3]
As of 2024, Journal Citation Reports lists the journal's 2023 impact factor as 9.1, ranking it tenth of 265 journal titles in the category "Plant Sciences". [1] As of 2023, it is being published as open access, under the Subscribe to Open model. [2] Its current editors are John M. McDowell and Gwyn A. Beattie. [3]
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 13.263, ranking it 5th out of 238 journals in the category "Plant Sciences" [1] and 8th out of 158 journals in the category "Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology". [2] As an Open Access journal, articles are accessible globally without restriction.
As of 2023, it is being published as open access, under the Subscribe to Open model. [2] It is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index . As of 2024, [update] Journal Citation Reports gives the journal a 2023 impact factor of 8.9, ranking it second out of 217 journals in the category "Sociology".
Life is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by MDPI. The journal was established in 2011 and covers all aspects of life sciences, from basic to applied research. It publishes reviews, research articles, short communications, perspectives, and hypotheses. The journal is organized in 20 sections. [1]