Biological Reviews

Biological Reviews is a scientific journal that covers a wide range of topics in the biological sciences. It publishes several review articles per issue, which are aimed at both non-specialist biologists and researchers in the field. The articles are scholarly and include extensive bibliographies. Authors are instructed to be aware of the diverse readership and write their articles accordingly. The reviews in Biological Reviews serve as comprehensive introductions to specific fields, presenting the current state of the art and highlighting gaps in knowledge. Each article can be up to 20,000 words long and includes an abstract, a thorough introduction, and a statement of conclusions. The journal focuses on publishing synthetic reviews, which are based on existing literature and address important biological questions. These reviews are interesting to a broad readership and are timely, often related to fast-moving fields or new discoveries. A key aspect of a synthetic review is that it goes beyond simply compiling information and instead analyzes the collected data to create a new theoretical or conceptual framework that can significantly impact the field. Biological Reviews is abstracted and indexed in various databases, including Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases, Academic Search, AgBiotech News & Information, AgBiotechNet, AGRICOLA Database, GeoRef, Global Health, SCOPUS, Weed Abstracts, and Reaction Citation Index, among others.

《Biological Reviews》是一本涵盖生物科学广泛主题的科学期刊。 它每期发表几篇评论文章，针对非专业生物学家和该领域的研究人员，这些文章具有学术性，包含大量参考书目。作者被要求了解不同的读者群并相应地撰写文章。 该杂志专注于发表综合评论，这些评论基于现有文献并解决重要的生物学问题，对广大读者来说很有趣，而且很及时，通常与快速发展的领域或新发现相关。综合评价的一个关键方面是，它不仅仅是简单地编译信息，而是分析收集的数据，以创建可以对该领域产生重大影响的新理论或概念框架。