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.