Journal History
| 2012 | The inaugural issue was released. Biology was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2014 | Biology was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| 2016 | The Biology Twitter account was established. |
| 2018 | Biology announced the first edition of the Travel Award. |
| 2019 | Biology was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 6 (Issue 1). Biology established the following sections:
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| 2020 | The journal received its first Impact Factor (3.796). Biology established the following sections:
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| 2021 | Biology published its 1,000th paper. Biology launched Editor's Choice Articles on the journal's website. Biology established the following sections:
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| 2023 | Behavior Biology was renamed as Behavioural Biology. Theoretical Biology was renamed as Theoretical Biology and Biomathematics. |
| 2024 | Developmental Biology was merged with Reproductive Biology to create a new section Developmental and Reproductive Biology. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2012–2020 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Chris O'Callaghan |
| 2021–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jukka Finne and Prof. Dr. Andrés Moya |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2019–2023 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yasuo Uchiyama for the section on Neuroscience |
| 2019–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ettore Randi for the section on Conservation Biology and Biodiversity Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jacques Demongeot for the section on Theoretical Biology and Biomathematics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. W. Brad Barbazuk for the section on Bioinformatics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andrés Moya for the section on Evolutionary Biology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. John R. Turner for the section on Marine Biology |
| 2020–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Geert F. Wiegertjes for the section on Immunology |
| 2020–2023 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Denis Noble for the section on Physiology |
| 2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Zed Rengel for the section on Plant Science |
| 2021–2023 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Pierre Devaux for the section on Biotechnology |
| 2021–2024 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jacek Z. Kubiak for the section on Developmental Biology |
| 2021–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Malgorzata Kloc for the section on Cell Biology |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Panayiotis Dimitrakopoulos for the section on Ecology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Vincent L. Bels for the section on Zoology |
| 2023–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Oswaldo Palenzuela for the section on Infection Biology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael Fromm for the section on Physiology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Judith Klein-Seetharaman for the section on Biophysics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Carol C. Shoulders for the section on Genetics and Genomics |
| 2024–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Natalia Osna for the section on Immunology Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Wuqiang Zhu for the section on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jacek Z. Kubiak for the section on Developmental and Reproductive Biology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Bo Peng for the section on Microbiology |
| 2025–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Yu Ding for the section on Biotechnology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Oliver von Bohlen Und Halbach for the section on Neuroscience Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Marcus Krüger for the section on Cancer Biology |
