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Biology SCI Journals: Review within 8 weeks
Biology SCI Journals: Review within 8 weeks: 100 journals, each with impact factor, CAS zone, review time, APC, open-access status, annual volume and database indexing, and filterable by all of them.
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IF 5.33CAS Zone 2 · Biology · TopReview: median 44 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,900Gold OA826 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJFrontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
IF 5.26CAS Zone 2 · BiologyReview: median 55 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA1,164 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJEarly-warning / risk flagArtificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences
IF 5.1Review: about 54 days (submission to acceptance, publisher)APC about USD 2,070Gold OA26 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJPlants-Basel
IF 4.7CAS Zone 2 · BiologyReview: median 39 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA3,886 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJEarly-warning / risk flagMicroorganisms
IF 4.65CAS Zone 2 · BiologyReview: median 38 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA2,923 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJMetabolites
IF 4.45CAS Zone 3 · BiologyReview: median 35 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA837 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJBiology-Basel
IF 4.3CAS Zone 2 · BiologyReview: median 35 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA1,868 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJEarly-warning / risk flagJournal of Fungi
IF 4.28CAS Zone 2 · BiologyReview: median 37 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA905 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJCurrent Issues in Molecular Biology
IF 4.13CAS Zone 3 · BiologyReview: median 37 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA1,097 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJJournal site: new publisherEpigenomes
IF 4.1CAS Zone 4 · BiologyReview: median 52 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA53 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJRNA Biology
IF 4.09CAS Zone 3 · BiologyReview: about 46 days (first decision after review, publisher)APC about USD 3,650Gold OA84 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJPlant Signaling & Behavior
IF 4.08CAS Zone 4 · BiologyReview: median 40 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 2,630Gold OA95 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJBMB Reports
IF 4.04CAS Zone 4 · BiologyReview: about 1 monthAPC about USD 550Gold OA57 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJLife-Basel
IF 3.86CAS Zone 3 · BiologyReview: median 36 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA1,966 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJEarly-warning / risk flagBioTech
IF 3.6CAS Zone 4 · BiologyReview: median 46 days to acceptanceAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA100 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJMetabarcoding and Metagenomics
IF 3.5Review: about 8 weeksAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA26 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJPhycology
IF 3.5Review: about 6 weeksAPC charged, amount not publishedGold OA92 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJJournal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
IF 3.36CAS Zone 4 · BiologyReview: median 54 days to acceptanceSubscription314 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusGenes
IF 3.09CAS Zone 3 · BiologyReview: median 32 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,137Gold OA1,525 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusComparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics
IF 2.9CAS Zone 3 · BiologyReview: median 53 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,360Hybrid OA292 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus
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About these figures
- Impact factor is the latest value LetPub lists. CAS zone is the major-category zone of the Chinese Academy of Sciences journal ranking, 2025 upgraded edition by default and switchable to the 2026 Xinrui edition; Top and review-journal flags are kept per edition.
- Review time is first the median from submission to acceptance of the journal's own articles from the last 24 months (Crossref / PubMed dates, at least 10 articles), then the publisher's stated submission-to-acceptance, final-decision or post-review decision time, then the community's average report. A publisher's "time to first decision" includes desk rejections and is used only when nothing else exists. Each source is labelled.
- APC is taken from DOAJ, OpenAlex, the publisher's website and LetPub, in that order; a hybrid journal's APC applies only to articles published open access.
- Articles per year is OpenAlex's count for the last complete year, or LetPub's annual article count when that is missing.