Journal History
2011 | The inaugural issue was released. Life was published as a quarterly journal. |
2013 | Life was indexed in Scopus - Elsevier. |
2014 | Life was indexed in PubMed - National Library of Medicine and PubMed Central (PMC) - National Library of Medicine. |
2018 | Life became an affiliated journal of the Astrobiology Society of Britain (ASB). |
2019 | Life was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). |
2020 | Life adopted a monthly publication schedule. |
Life announced the first edition of the Young Investigators award. | |
Life announced the first edition of the Best Paper award. | |
Life received its first Impact Factor (2.991). | |
2021 | Life became an affiliated journal of the Spanish Association for Cancer Research (ASEICA). |
Editor-in-Chief
2011–2012 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Marie-Paul Bassez |
2014–2015 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Pabulo H. Rampelotto |
2016–2018 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. David Deamer |
2018–2019 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Muller |
Section Editor-in-Chief
2011–2013 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Antonio Bianconi for the section on Physics |
2011–2016 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Helga Stan-Lotter for the section on Life Sciences |
2014–2016 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. William Bains for the section on Hypotheses in the Life Sciences |
2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ron Elber for the section on Biochemistry, Biophysics and Computational Biology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Bruce J. Nicholson for the section on Biochemistry, Biophysics and Computational Biology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Katalin Prokai-Tatrai for the section on Medical Research Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ramón Cacabelos for the section on Pharmaceutical Sciences Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andrew Pohorille for the section on Astrobiology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stefano Gianni for the section on Proteins and Proteomics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Lluís Ribas de Pouplana for the section on Genetics and Genomics Research Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Koichiro Tamura for the section on Evolutionary Biology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nicola Smania for the section on Physiology and Pathology Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Daniele Focosi for the section on Epidemiology |
2021–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Doron Lancet for the section on Origin of Life |