About the Journal
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Life Science Alliance publishes high-quality articles across all areas in the life sciences and biomedical research. Life Science Alliance is a community partnership between EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Life Science Alliance is committed to the rapid, fair, transparent, and open-access publication of research papers on new results, including notable confirmatory, null and refuting data, as well as important resources such as datasets, screens, and new methods from the full spectrum of life science and biomedical research. Manuscripts are critically evaluated for strong evidence to support the conclusions that are drawn.
Editorial Selection Criteria
Neither the perceived impact nor the prestige of the authors or their institutions is taken into account in evaluation of manuscripts. The likelihood an article will be cited or contribute to other journal metrics is also not considered.
Life Science Alliance welcomes submission in the following biological processes, investigated at any level of organization (from the structural and molecular to the organismal) and in any model system:
Aging
Biophysics
Cancer
Cell Biology
Chemical Biology
Chromatin & Epigenetics
Development
Ecology
Evolution
Genetics, Gene Therapy, & Genetic Disease
Genomics & Functional Genomics
Immunology
Medical Research
Metabolism
Methods & Resources
Microbiology, Virology & Host Pathogen Interaction
Molecular Biology
Molecular Diagnostics & Diagnostic Imaging
Neuroscience
Pharmacology & Biotechnology
Physiology
Plant Science
Stem Cells
Structural Biology
Synthetic Biology
Systems & Computational Biology
Article Types
Life Science Alliance publishes the following article types:
Research Articles, Methods, Resources, and Follow Ups - Original research papers, reporting valuable findings in the life sciences. These articles are peer reviewed. A Follow Up allows publication of work directly related to the authors’ previous work published in Life Science Alliance.
Correspondence (peer reviewed) - Correspondence concerning the validity of data or its interpretation in articles published in Life Science Alliance.
Editorials - Policies, news, and comments. Not peer reviewed.