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2008 Impact Factor: 8.755. Submit your next review article online.

Biological Reviews

Published on behalf of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Edited by:
Dr. William Foster


ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 2/71 Biology
Impact Factor: 8.755

Biological Reviews covers the entire range of the biological sciences, presenting several review articles per issue. Although scholarly and with extensive bibliographies, the articles are aimed at non-specialist biologists as well as researchers in the field. Authors are specifically instructed to be aware of this fact in their writing, and the resulting reviews serve as extensive introductions to particular fields, defining the state of the art, and drawing attention to gaps in knowledge. Articles are up to 20,000 words long and each contains an abstract, a thorough introduction and statement of conclusions.

What Biological Reviews has to offer:

  • Fast publication times
  • Flexible policy on nature of articles, with scope for extensive tables and illustrations
  • International exposure with global circulation

* Biological Reviews also accepts unsolicited reviews. Find out more details on how to submit your review paper here *

TopNews and Announcements

NEW: Online Article Submission
 Biological Reviews has adopted ScholarOne Manuscripts (formerly known as Manuscript Central), the electronic editorial office run by ScholarOne. The new system brings with it a whole host of benefits including:

  • Simple procedures for uploading manuscripts and figures
  • 24 hour online and telephone helpdesk
  • Faster decision times through online refereeing system


All submissions to the journal must now be made via the online electronic editorial office. Full instructions and a help facility are available at the Biological Reviews ScholarOne™ site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/brv


Online content now available back to Volume 1 (1923)
All back issues of this journal are available online. Click here to browse contents and abstracts. For further information on how to access these articles please visit our Librarian Site.

Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our EarlyView feature before the print edition of this journal is published.

Blackwell goes CarbonNeutral®
Blackwell Publishing is the first publisher to become CarbonNeutral®. Read more about the initiatives we have signed up to with The CarbonNeutral Company here.

Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO), the AGORA initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the OARE initiative set up by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Yale University.

NIH-funded authors and Biological Reviews

From April 2008, the NIH is mandating grantees to deposit their peer-reviewed author manuscripts in PubMed Central, to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. The NIH mandate applies to all articles based on research that has been wholly or partially funded by the NIH and that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. In order to help authors comply with the NIH mandate, for papers accepted for publication in Biological Reviews after this date Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted manuscript (incorporating all amendments made during peer review, but prior to the publisher's copy-editing and typesetting) of articles by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central at the point of acceptance by the journal. This version will then be made publicly available in PubMed Central 12 months after publication. Following the deposit Wiley-Blackwell authors will receive further communications from the NIH with respect to the submission. For further information, see here.

If authors wish to make their final published article openly accessible and without a 12 month embargo, they can choose to publish via the OnlineOpen service.

Wellcome and HHMI grantees can find out further information here.

TopHighlights

Highly cited papers
The following three papers were the most highly cited articles in 2008:

Most downloaded articles
The following three papers were the most downloaded articles in 2008: