Overview
Discover Life is an open access journal publishing research from all fields relevant to life science.
- Considers articles from a broad range of life science disciplines.
- Formerly Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres (2023 Impact Factor: 1.9), Discover Life is expected to receive its first Impact Factor under the new name in 2026.
- 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)
- 18 days
- Downloads
- 122,636 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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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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Transition to fully Open Access: FAQs
Frequently asked questions regarding the transition to fully open access (OA)
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Writing your manuscript: interactive author tutorials
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
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Current Contents/Life Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Engineering Village – GEOBASE
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Meta
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information