Biology Direct

*Biology Direct*
Discipline	Biology
Language	English
Edited by	Eugene Koonin, Laura Landweber, David J. Lipman
Publication details
Publisher	BioMed Central
Impact factor	4.04 (2013)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Biol. Direct
Indexing;
ISSN	1745-6150;
Links
	Journal homepage;

Biology Direct is an online open access scientific journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed research papers, reviews, hypotheses, comments and discovery notes in biology. The journal is published by BioMed Central.

The journal follows a peer review system which is different from the traditional peer review system, which aims to give more responsibility to authors, and reduce sources of bias. Published articles include signed reviewer reports, and responses to the reports from the authors, to provide readers with an additional guide to the article.^[1]

^ Koonin, E.; Landweber, L.; Lipman, D. (2006). "A community experiment with fully open and published peer review". Biology Direct. 1: 1. doi:10.1186/1745-6150-1-1. PMC 1397803. PMID 16542032.

[1] Koonin, E.; Landweber, L.; Lipman, D. (2006). "A community experiment with fully open and published peer review". Biology Direct. 1: 1. doi:10.1186/1745-6150-1-1. PMC 1397803. PMID 16542032.

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