Genome Biology

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.^[1] The journal has an international editorial board of researchers.^[2]

Authors and peer reviewers are asked to disclose competing interests.^[3]

The journal is supported in part by advertising.

Impact factor

The journal has a (2015) impact factor of 11.313 as tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI).^[4]

Contents

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. ^[5]

Categories of articles in the journal include:

• Research: These are Peer reviewed research papers
• Method: These are Peer reviewed papers describing new methods
• Software: These are Peer reviewed papers describing new software tools
• Commentary/Editorial: These are comments on scientific, political, and ethical issues relating to genomic research
• Meeting report: These are summaries of information presented at conferences
• Reviews and Opinion articles: These are also Peer reviewed

Publication format

Genome Biology is published online only. There is no physical printed version.^[6]

Article accessibility

Accessibility to each article is free (by open access)

Sources of revenue

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.^[7] The latter fee covers the cost of processing and publishing articles ^[8]

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