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Published February 2020 | Published
Journal Article Open

Open Biology in a new decade

Abstract

The end of the decade marks the end of my tenure as Editor-in-Chief of Open Biology. How far have we come since the launch of the journal in September 2011? This has certainly been a difficult time to start a new journal in molecular and cell biology, where the competition is fierce. We have made impact, however, with our dreaded Impact Factor oscillating between 3.5 and 5.8 during this time. I anticipate the metrics will soon rise higher because, most importantly, we are now recognized within the community as a journal that truly represents the interests of scientists. There has been a lot of debate about scientific publishing in the past decade and we have seen many new models emerge. We have watched this happen and taken up many suggestions from our readers and editorial board. While considering many different options, however, we have continued to follow a fairly traditional pattern of peer review. I believe this works well for us exactly because the journal is run by scientists for scientists and we know of the problems facing scientific publishing, particularly in molecular and cell biology, and wish to avoid them. It is vital that the academic academies and societies provide their members with publishing opportunities and indeed, the Royal Society serves us all well in this respect. Whereas competition from the publishing houses keeps us on our toes, our motivation is simply one of scientific communication to aid scientific progress.

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© 2020 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Published: 05 February 2020.

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