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Journals catalogue 2021
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Contents
About the Royal Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A message from the Publishing Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Read & Publish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What’s new. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Subject focus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Published articles by discipline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Published articles by origin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Working with authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Readers, engagement and impact. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Open Access membership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The Royal Society Journals Archive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Package A information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Package B information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Package S information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Our journals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Philosophical Transactions A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Proceedings A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Interface Focus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Philosophical Transactions B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Proceedings B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Biology Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Open Biology.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Royal Society Open Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Notes and Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Biographical Memoirs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Single journal subscription prices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Subscription essentials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Transparent pricing mechanism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
How to order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Cover:
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A message from the Publishing
About the Royal Society Director of the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the In 2020 the practice and progress of science have been
world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, discussed by society more than ever before. Chief Scientific
engineering, and medicine. The Society’s fundamental purpose, Advisors have become household names explaining the
reflected in its founding Charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, mathematical models and practical public health measures
promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the that affect all our lives at a time of pandemic.
development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
As researchers all over the world were sent home from their labs
The Fellowship includes over 60 Nobel Laureates. and university offices, the Royal Society continued to publish and
disseminate research. We dropped our paywall on 24 March to
Current Fellows and Foreign Members include Jocelyn Bell ensure uninterrupted access to articles for those off campus and
Burnell, Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Dawkins, Joseph Stiglitz, we helped to set up a number of initiatives around Coronavirus
Elizabeth Blackburn and Venki Ramakrishnan. Previous Fellows COVID-19 research, including rapid peer review and registered
and Foreign Members include Charles Darwin, Paul Dirac, Albert reports. You can find an introduction to our resources on page 9.
Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Dorothy Hodgkin, Isaac Newton, Ernest
Rutherford and Christopher Wren. 2021 will no doubt see the continuation of this work, but we
are also looking further into the future and continuing to
develop both our individual journals and our overall approach
to publishing. In 2021 we’ll be offering Read & Publish deals
for the first time, and you can find details on page 6. Our open
access memberships and subscriptions remain available, so that
each library can choose the model that suits them best at this
time of transition.
We look forward to meeting librarians, research administrators
and authors again when we can, and thank you for your
continued support of our journals.
Dr Stuart Taylor
Publishing Director
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Read & Publish
Read & Publish (R&P) is a new way to purchase both content and For librarians:
open access publishing. Institutions pay one tailored annual fee based
• One simple annual fee tailored to your institution based on:
on subscriptions and APC spend. This fee entitles researchers at the
– current subscription spend
institution to access our content and covers the publishing costs for
– average APC spend over 2 years to stabilise peaks and troughs
an unlimited number of papers.
– Open Access membership fee if applicable
A Read & Publish agreement will be most valuable for universities • Full access to journal articles
that subscribe to our journals and have high levels of research output
• Perpetual access to content published in a year when the deal
published with us.
was in place
The agreement also creates the opportunity to publish open access • One-year deal reviewed and revised for following year.
in subjects where funds for article processing charges have not been
available. Our broad scope and cross disciplinary approach mean we can For researchers:
accept papers in many different scientific subjects. • Only the corresponding author needs to belong to an institution
with a R&P deal
Royal Society publishing policies meet the guidelines set down by a
range of major funders including the Wellcome Trust, Research England, • No fees or invoices, just pick your institution when you submit
NIH, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, HHMI, UKRI, and the European • Uncapped OA publishing either across the portfolio or within
Commission. All Royal Society journals are Plan S compliant. physical or life sciences.
Contact us and we’ll calculate your tailored R&P price for 2021.
access@royalsocietypublishing.org
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What’s new Subject focus
As the UK’s national science academy, we represent and support COVID-19
the entire range of science and work to promote best practice in The Royal Society is a signatory to the Wellcome statement on
publication ethics and the assessment and dissemination of science. research findings and data relevant to the COVID-19 outbreak
which aims to ensure that relevant research and data are shared
We support the principles of open science and open data, including rapidly and openly. The statement asks that researchers share
funder information through the Crossref Funder Registry, researcher interim and final data along with protocols and standards, both
disambiguation through ORCID, version control through Crossmark, with the research community and the World Health Organisation.
and preprint servers. We are working to implement open peer This is in order to inform the worldwide public health response
review across our journals. and help save lives.
We are committed to the accessibility of research and rapid A collection of relevant work published by the Royal Society
communication and encourage researchers to deposit pre- can be found at:
publication versions of articles in appropriate preprint repositories.
royalsocietypublishing.org/topic/special-collections/novel-
Open Biology, Royal Society Open Science, Biology Letters,
coronavirus-outbreak
Proceedings B and Journal of the Royal Society Interface now
support submission of manuscripts directly from bioRxiv. Authors
Theme issues include
can transfer their manuscript information and metadata without
• Multi-scale dynamics of infectious diseases
having to re-upload files.
• Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals
In Proceedings B the new Biology in Practice article type addresses and plants: epidemic forecasting and control
new and broader scientific practices that influence research quality,
• Emerging infections: what have we learnt from SARS?
scientific community health, and the public understanding of science.
Individual papers address many relevant topics including
modelling the cost of vaccine uptake, viral spillover among
mammals, and exploring psychological reactions to self-isolation.
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PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY DISCIPLINE IN 2019 PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY ORIGIN IN 2019
1% 1% Europe
13% North America UK (inc Russia)
866 715 822
5%
5%
7%
Total
2,784
China
256
2%
2% 56% South America
8% and Caribbean
27 170
50 Africa Asia
(excl China)
Astronomy Engineering and technology
Biology Mathematics 46 154
Chemistry Physics Middle East, Australia and
North Africa New Zealand
Computer science Cross-disciplinary sciences and Turkey
Earth sciences History of science
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Working with authors
Librarians and research administrators take an increasing role in International Editorial Boards
helping researchers find the best journal to publish their research. Our Editorial Boards are chaired by a Fellow of the Royal Society
To help you answer their questions, here’s a quick introduction to and supported by other distinguished scientists in relevant disciplines.
what we offer researchers who publish with us.
Visibility and impact
Multidisciplinary science and multiple article types Papers are included in all the major indexing and abstracting services.
We publish research papers, reviews, opinion pieces, evidence Our publishing team are present at numerous international conferences.
synthesis articles, Registered Reports, replications, negative Articles published in Royal Society journals make headlines in
results papers and theme issues. mainstream newspapers and broadcasts in the UK, and around
the world.
Funder compliant
We are compliant with Plan S and the policies of many major Authors can find out more at:
funders including the Wellcome Trust, Research England, NIH, royalsociety.org/journals/authors
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, HHMI, UKRI, and the
© FG Trade
European Commission.
Submissions and peer review
Royal Society publishing offers a straightforward submissions
process with people on hand to answer questions and a rigorous
and constructive peer review process. Manuscripts receive a first
decision in an average of 3 – 6 weeks and, once accepted, are
published quickly.
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Readers, engagement and impact THE CITIES WITH THE MOST READERS IN 2019
Papers in Royal Society journals are highly cited for many
years after first publication and are highly rated both when Montreal
using traditional assessments such as Impact Factor and London
Toronto
Boston
broader measures. Los Angeles Beijing
Hyderabad
The Society’s commitment to public engagement and wider role Berlin
as a grant giving organisation means research published with us Paris
Pune Seoul
New York
can often find a wide audience outside science and academia.
Chicago
Violent video game engagement is not associated with Quezon City
Lagos
Bengaluru
adolescents’ aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered Brisbane
Chennai
report published in Royal Society Open Science made the top thirty
of the Altmetric top 100. It was covered by over 190 news outlets
and mentioned in over 4,000 tweets. Melbourne
Sydney
The Biology Letters paper Herring gulls respond to human gaze
Source: Data from Google analytics
direction made headlines across the world in the summer of 2019
with over 200 news mentions.
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Open Access membership Support and encourage open access
Our Open Access memberships continue to be popular with
publishing at your institution
institutions who don’t wish to move to Read & Publish.
Standard membership
Memberships offer discounts of up to 25% on each article Authors from member institutions receive a 25% discount on the article
processing charge, making research grants and institutional open processing charges for all our journals. An annual fee is charged, based
access funds stretch further. on the number of open access articles published with the Royal Society
the previous year.
With Open Access membership you receive:
Prepay membership
• a straight-forward and manageable payment process, Prepay members deposit a minimum of €5,000 from which article
with regular reporting to help you keep track of your funds processing charges are deducted less a 10% discount. You can choose
• a transparent pricing policy, ensuring that open access articles exactly how the deposit is allocated in line with your institutional
are not paid for twice requirements and there is no time limit on funds being spent.
• immediate deposit in Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, Flexible options
Web of Science and other indexing and abstracting services. We are committed to supporting open access and offer institutions
Our publishing policies are compliant with Plan S and with the and authors a high level of flexibility to accommodate individual needs
requirements of a range of funders including the Wellcome Trust, and requirements.
NIH, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, HHMI, UKRI, and the
European Commission.
For more information email oam@royalsociety.org
or visit royalsociety.org/oa-membership
Author guidelines are available at royalsociety.org/open-access
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The Journals Archive
royalsociety.org/archive-sales The Journals Archive is the only way to guarantee perpetual access
to all Royal Society journals from 1665 to 1996. It offers significant value
Discover some of the most fundamental and significant findings to libraries who need to reduce print holdings or off-site storage costs,
in scientific history. and can release over 50 metres of shelf space.
Launched in 2017, the Journals Archive contains high quality full colour Notable authors include Sir Christopher Wren, Benjamin Franklin,
images of the original publications from 1665 to 1996. It is significantly James Clerk Maxwell, Alan Turing, Kathleen Lonsdale, Stephen Hawking
easier to read and more searchable than previous archive material. and Dorothy Hodgkin.
A major resource for History of Science courses, it covers works Perpetual access gives your researchers:
in Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Maths and the broad • MathML, searchable by equation
interdisciplinary studies for which Royal Society journals are so well
known. As a substantial corpus of work in early modern English, • comprehensive metadata for indexing and discoverability
it is also of interest to linguistics departments. • annotations, illustrations and additional material captured from
our original collections
• fully searchable colour pdfs
• image plates, maps, and end matter material
• additional content not previously available.
Price on application
Image: The Red-beaked Toucan from Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting
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The Physical Sciences Collection The Biological Sciences Collection
(Package A) (Package B)
Specialist content for engineering, mathematics Specialist content for biology and life sciences research, hospitals
and physics research: and health libraries:
• 10% discount as compared to individual subscriptions • 10% discount as compared to individual subscriptions
• Includes free access to physical sciences archive content from • Includes free access to biological sciences content in our
1665, with an extensive collection of papers from the nineteenth digital archive from 1665, with an extensive collection of
century, for as long as the subscription remains active papers from the nineteenth century, for as long as the subscription
• Includes open access journal Royal Society remains active
Open Science • Includes open access journals Open Biology and
Royal Society Open Science
Published in print and online
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Published in print and online
• Proceedings of the Royal Society A • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
• Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Published online only
• Journal of the Royal Society Interface Published online only
• Interface Focus • Biology Letters
• Journal of the Royal Society Interface
• Interface Focus
Pricing Pricing
The Physical £UK/ €Europe $US/Canada The Biological Sciences £UK/ €Europe $US/Canada
Sciences Collection Rest of World Collection Rest of World
(Package A) (Package B)
Online only subscription £7,191 €9,347 $13,438 Online only subscription £8,165 €10,618 $15,326
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The Excellence in Science Collection
(Package S)
Our journals
Support a broad range of scientific research:
• Receive a 15% discount on the individual title subscription prices
• Includes free access to our extensive digital archive from 1665 for
as long as the subscription remains active
• Includes open access journals Open Biology and
Royal Society Open Science
Published in print and online
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
• Proceedings of the Royal Society A
• Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• Notes and Records: the Royal Society journal
of the history of science
Published online only
• Biology Letters
• Journal of the Royal Society Interface
• Interface Focus
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royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rsta Features Include: In 2021
Volume
• high quality, multi-authored theme issues, each 379
Influential themed journal issues across the physical,
examining a topical area of science Number of issues per year
mathematical and engineering sciences.
26
• fully peer reviewed to the Royal Society’s
ISSN
Philosophical Transactions A issues present new research, high standards
Print 1364-503X
reviews, and opinions from prominent researchers. It is an Electronic 1471-2962
• articles put straight into e-issues with final citation
established forum for the new and exciting topics in the Citation
physical sciences and an essential read for researchers in • immediate free access to previous nine years of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A
this area. back issues Editor
Professor John Dainton FRS
• custom searching and content alerting functions.
Guest-edited by leading authorities, each issue aims Publisher
The Royal Society,
to create an original and authoritative synthesis, often
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bridging traditional disciplines, and providing a foundation London SW1Y 5AG, UK
Impact factor
for future research, applications and policy decisions.
3.275
22nd in Multi-disciplinary In 2021, issues will include astronomy from the Moon,
sciences machine learning for weather and climate modelling,
fracture dynamics of solid materials, and the mathematics
Citescore of energy systems.
6.7
7th of 368 in General
Mathematics
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Combined print and online £3,746 €4,874 $7,107
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royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rspa Features Include: In 2021
Volume
• high quality, international articles 477
The latest research articles in the chemical, computational,
• fully peer reviewed to the Royal Society’s Number of issues per year
mathematical, physical, engineering and earth sciences.
12
high standards
ISSN
With a particular emphasis on emerging areas of
• articles put straight into e-issues with final citation Print 1364-5021
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research, articles Electronic 1471-2946
published in Proceedings A are of the highest scientific • custom searching and content alerting functions
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quality. The journal is widely read and widely cited, long • immediate free access to previous nine years Proc. R. Soc. A
after content is published. of back issues Editor
Professor Michael Lockwood
Article types include research articles, reviews, • optional open peer review available. Publisher
The Royal Society,
invited perspectives, comments and invited replies
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and evidence synthesis. London SW1Y 5AG, UK
Impact factor
2.741 Planned topics for 2021 include a special feature
26th in Multi-disciplinary on metamaterials, and reviews on petroleomics,
sciences coronagraphs, atmospheric CO2, ocean circulation
and machine learning.
Citescore
5.0
14th of 368 in General
Mathematics
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royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rsif Features Include: In 2021
Volume
• high quality, international articles, reviews and reports 18
Cross-disciplinary research transcending the life sciences
and physical sciences divide. • fully peer reviewed to the Royal Society’s Number of issues per year
12
high standards
Short reports, research articles and reviews, which apply ISSN
• articles put straight into e-issues with final citation Electronic 1742-5662
chemistry, mathematics, engineering, materials science
Citation
and physics to biology and medicine, and the other way • immediate free access to previous nine years of
J. R. Soc. Interface
around. In Journal of the Royal Society Interface both back issues. Editor
sides of the scientific interface are considered equally. Professor Richard Cogdell FRS
Publisher
Providing a dedicated forum for rapid publication and The Royal Society,
interaction across scientific boundaries the editorial 6 – 9 Carlton House Terrace,
London SW1Y 5AG, UK
scope incorporates interesting and informative articles in
Impact factor all interdisciplinary areas of science.
3.748
19th in Multi-disciplinary In 2021 topics will include topics will include biophysics,
sciences synthetic biology, biomaterials, chemical biology, and
biomechanics.
Citescore
5.7
22nd of 129 in
Biophysics
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royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rsfs Features Include: In 2021
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• high quality, commissioned, multi-authored theme 11
Themed issues covering cross-disciplinary
issues, each examining a topical area of science Number of issues per year
research transcending the life sciences and
6
physical sciences divide. • fully peer reviewed to the Royal Society’s
ISSN
high standards
Electronic 2042-8901
Each issue of Interface Focus is devoted to a specific
• immediate free access to previous nine years of Citation
topic at the interface of the physical and life sciences.
back issues. Interface Focus
This topic will define a research frontier that is Editor
advancing rapidly and will, by its very nature, bridge Professor Russell Foster FRS
traditional disciplines. Publisher
The Royal Society,
Issues in 2021 will include Carbon dioxide 6 – 9 Carlton House Terrace,
London SW1Y 5AG, UK
detection in biological systems; Anthroengineering:
Impact factor a biological approach and Cell mimicry: bottom-up
3.514 engineering of life.
21st in Biology
Interface Focus is essential for research groups working
Citescore across the physical and life sciences divide.
6.6
16th of 129 in Biophysics
Now available
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royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstb Features Include: In 2021
Volume
• high quality, multi-authored theme issues, 376
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
each examining a topical area of science Number of issues per year
Continuing its long history of influential scientific 26
• fully peer reviewed to the Royal Society’s
publishing, each issue of Philosophical Transactions B ISSN
high standards
Print 0962-8436
offers new research, reviews and opinions from prominent
• articles put straight into e-issues with final citation Electronic 1471-2970
researchers. Issues are either based on the internationally
Citation
acclaimed Royal Society Discussion Meetings or are • immediate free access to previous nine years of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B
stand-alone topics commissioned by the journal or back issues. Editor
proposed by the guest editors. Professor John Pickett CBE
DSc FRS
The journal showcases current developments and Publisher
The Royal Society,
provides a foundation for future research, applications
Impact factor 6 – 9 Carlton House Terrace,
and policy decisions. London SW1Y 5AG, UK
5.680
8th in Biology In 2021, topics will include ageing and sociality, sex
chromosome evolution, prehistoric languages, and control
Citescore strategies for mosquito-borne diseases.
11.4
5th of 203 in General
Agricultural and
Biological Sciences
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royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rspb Features Include: In 2021
Volume
• high quality, international articles 288
Dedicated to the fast publication and worldwide
dissemination of high-quality biological research. • fully peer reviewed to the Royal Society’s Number of issues per year
24
high standards
Proceedings B publishes work of outstanding scientific ISSN
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