title: Open Life Sciences
text: # Open Life Sciences
  
  Open Life Sciences is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all areas of the life sciences. It was established in 2006 as the Central European Journal of Biology and co-published by Versita and Springer Science+Business Media. It obtained its current title in 2014 when it was moved completely to the De Gruyter imprint, at the same time switching to full open access. The editor-in-chief is Mariusz Ratajczak (University of Louisville).
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journals is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * AGRICOLA
  * Biological Abstracts
  * BIOSIS Previews
  * CAB Direct
  * Chemical Abstracts Service
  * Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences
  * Elsevier Biobase
  * EMBiology
  * GeoRef
  * Global Health
  * ProQuest
  * Science Citation Index Expanded
  * Scopus
  * The Zoological Record
  * Web of Science
  * PubMed
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 0.690.
  
  