The Quarterly Review of Biology

The Quarterly Review of Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biology. It was established in 1926 by Raymond Pearl. In the 1960s it was purchased by the Stony Brook Foundation when the editor H. Bentley Glass became academic vice president of Stony Brook University. The editor-in-chief is Liliana M. Dávalos (Stony Brook University). It is currently published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Quarterly Review of Biology

Discipline	Biology
Language	English
Edited by	Liliana M. Dávalos
Publication details
History	1926–present
Publisher	University of Chicago Press for the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	3.7 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Q. Rev. Biol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	QRBIAK
ISSN	0033-5770 (print) 1539-7718 (web)
JSTOR	00335770
OCLC no.	223702870
Links
Journal homepage OnlineArchive

Aims and scope

The QRB has presented insightful historical, philosophical, and technical treatments of important biological topics since 1926. As the premier review journal in biology, the QRB publishes outstanding review articles of generous length that are guided by an expansive, inclusive, and often humanistic understanding of biology. Beyond the core biological sciences, the QRB is also an important review journal for scholars in related areas, including policy studies and the history and philosophy of science. A comprehensive section of reviews of new biological books provides educators and researchers with information on the latest publications in the life sciences.^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, and the Science Citation Index.