BioScience

This article is about the journal. For bioscience in general, see List of life sciences.

BioScience is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.^[1] It was established in 1964 and was preceded by the AIBS Bulletin (1951–1963).

BioScience

Discipline	Biology
Language	English
Edited by	Charles Fenster
Publication details
History	1964–present
Publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	8.589 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	BioScience
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	BISNAS
ISSN	0006-3568 (print) 1525-3244 (web)
LCCN	82643645
OCLC no.	610211421
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive Online archive of the AIBS Bulletin

The journal publishes literature reviews of current research in biology, as well as essays and discussion sections on education, public policy, history of biology, and theoretical issues.^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed (1973–1979),^[3] the Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, The Zoological Record, and BIOSIS Previews.^[4] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 8.589.^[5]