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Open Life Sciences
Walter de Gruyter (2015-)
ISSN: 2391-5412
Biology - Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) - Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) - Immunology and Microbiology (all) - Neuroscience (all) - plant science, animal science, molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, ecology
APC discount

APC Discount


Corresponding authors affiliated with VU/VUMC, EUR/ErasmusMC, RU/RadboudUMC, RUG/UMCG, TUD, TU/e, UL/LUMC, UM/MUMC+, UU/UMC Utrecht, UvA/AMC, TiU and WUR will receive a 100% discount on the Article Processing Charges that need to be paid to publish open access in this journal.
For the publisher, the corresponding author is the author who submits the article to the journal and corresponds with the publisher during the publication process. Only this author can receive the discount.

Publication types that are part of the deal: Original research article, review article, original article, opinion, short communication, case report, editorial, work group report, book review, letter to editor, congress abstract. For more information please ask your university open access contact.


More information on Walter de Gruyter workflow for submission.

This deal is valid until 2025-12-31.
(NB: APC discount can only be claimed for articles submitted after 2017-01-01)

Last updated: 2023-03-16
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Metrics

JCR Science Citation Index (2021)

Impact factor: 1.311
Q4 (Biology (75/94))

Scopus Journal Metrics (2021)

SJR: 0.249
SNIP: 0.379
CiteScore: 1.5
Rank within the category: Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all)
Quartile: Q2
CiteScore percentile: 52%
CiteScore rank: 101 out of 211
Rank within the category: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all)
Quartile: Q3
CiteScore percentile: 36%
CiteScore rank: 130 out of 204
Rank within the category: Immunology and Microbiology - Immunology and Microbiology (all)
Quartile: Q4
CiteScore percentile: 24%
CiteScore rank: 43 out of 56
Rank within the category: Neuroscience - Neuroscience (all)
Quartile: Q4
CiteScore percentile: 19%
CiteScore rank: 91 out of 112

Green Open Access

You Share, We Take Care!

Dutch copyright law (art. 25fa Auteurswet) allows you to deposit the publishers’ version (PDF) of short academic work in the university repository six months after the first (online) publication. The VU University Library can now support VU researchers who want to make their publications accessible in the VU Research Portal. If you have an employment contract with VU the library can automatically deposit published PDF-versions (Version of Record) of your academic publications on your behalf in the VU Research Portal.
Interested ? Read all about participation here

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