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Discover Life is an open access journal publishing research from all fields relevant to biological and biomedical sciences. Springer Nature is offering a discount on publication costs in this journal until 31 December 2026. Authors whose articles are accepted for publication in Discover Life up to and including that date will pay a discounted article-processing charge. Note that the discounted APC period does not apply to any journal to which your article may be transferred if not accepted in Discover Life. Discounted charge: €1090/$1490/£990. Standard charge: €1890/$2190/£1590.

  • Indexed in Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, with a 2025 CiteScore of 2
  • Formerly Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, Discover Life has a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.7 and a 5-year Journal Impact Factor of 1.8.
  • Considers articles from a broad range of biological and biomedical sciences disciplines.
  • Topics include biodiversity, ecology, molecular biology, genomics, computational biology, mechanobiology, astrobiology, and more.     
  • A journal in Springer Nature’s Discover Series: Rigorous, representative and wide-reaching.

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Journal Impact Factor
1.7 (2025)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
1.8 (2025)
Submission to first decision (median)
20 days
Downloads
547.5k (2025)

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Electronic ISSN
2948-2976
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. AGRICOLA
  2. Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
  3. BFI List
  4. BIOSIS
  5. Baidu
  6. Biological Abstracts
  7. CLOCKSS
  8. CNKI
  9. CNPIEC
  10. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  11. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  12. Current Contents/Life Sciences
  13. DOAJ
  14. Dimensions
  15. EBSCO
  16. EMBiology
  17. Engineering Village – GEOBASE
  18. Google Scholar
  19. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  20. Meta
  21. Naver
  22. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  23. Ovid Discovery
  24. Portico
  25. ProQuest
  26. SCImago
  27. SCOPUS
  28. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  29. TD Net Discovery Service
  30. Wanfang
  31. eLibrary.ru
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