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Discover Life, formerly Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, is an open access journal publishing research from all fields relevant to life science.

  • Considers articles from a broad range of life science disciplines.
  • Topics include biodiversity, ecology, molecular biology, genomics, and more.     
  • A Discover journal focused on speed of submission and review, service, and integrity.
Submission to first decision (median)
13 days
Downloads
122,636 (2023)

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  • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres is now Discover Life and fully open access!

    We are excited to announce that Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres has now become a fully open access (OA) journal as of 1 January 2024 and moved into our Discover series as Discover Life. We will now only publish articles as Open Access, meaning content will be freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse. 

    Springer Nature is committed to ensuring our portfolios serve and meet the evolving needs of the research community and that quality research is read and disseminated as widely as possible. Transforming Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres to Discover Life and full OA reflects our ongoing commitment to driving the transition to open research, and providing researchers with OA publication venues that can amplify their research and enable compliance with funder and institutional OA requirements, while continuing to deliver a high level of author service. See our FAQs journal update for further information.

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    Looking to publish in a Discover journal? Springer Nature provides interactive tutorials to help you as an author write the best article possible by providing points to consider, from your background reading and study design to manuscript structuring and figure preparation. Find out more

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
2948-2976
Print ISSN
2948-2968
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. AGRICOLA
  2. ANVUR
  3. Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
  4. BFI List
  5. BIOSIS
  6. Baidu
  7. Biological Abstracts
  8. CLOCKSS
  9. CNKI
  10. CNPIEC
  11. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  12. Current Contents/Life Sciences
  13. Dimensions
  14. EBSCO
  15. EMBiology
  16. Engineering Village – GEOBASE
  17. Google Scholar
  18. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  19. Meta
  20. Naver
  21. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  22. Portico
  23. ProQuest
  24. SCImago
  25. SCOPUS
  26. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  27. TD Net Discovery Service
  28. UGC-CARE List (India)
  29. Wanfang
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