About Life
Aims
Life (ISSN 2075-1729), an international, peer-reviewed scientific open access journal on the origins of life, astrobiology and evolution of biosystems. It publishes reviews, research articles, communications and short notes. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. Full experimental and/or methodical details must be provided. There are, in addition, unique features of this journal:
- manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas will be particularly welcomed
- electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure - if unable to be published in a normal way - can be deposited as supplementary material
- we also accept manuscripts communicating to a broader audience with regard to research projects financed with public funds
Scope
This journal covers all aspects of life sciences. Research fields of interest include but are not limited to:
- abiogenesis
- advances in life sciences
- artificial life
- astrobiology
- biochemistry
- biodiversity
- bioinformatics
- biophysics
- biotechnology
- cell biology
- definition of life
- ecology
- extremophiles
- evolutionary biology
- genetics
- genomics
- geobiology
- habitability
- life detection technology
- microbiology
- molecular biology
- origins of life
- paleontology
- prebiotic chemistry
- proteomics
- systems biology
- virology
MDPI Publication Ethics Statement
Life is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI enforces a rigorous peer-review process that adopts strict ethical policies and standards to ensure that we contribute high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, etc., occasionally arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy.
Book Reviews
Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland. Received books will be listed first as "Books Received", then offered to the scholarly community for preparing reviews.
Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in Life will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License. MDPI will insert following note at the end of the published text:
Reprints may be ordered. Please contact publisher@mdpi.com for more information on how to order reprints. Announcements regarding academic activities such as conferences are published for free. Advertisement can be either published or placed on the pertinent website. Contact e-mail address is life@mdpi.com.Reprints
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