Journal History
2011 | Inaugural issue was released, Life was published as a quarterly journal |
2013 | Life was indexed in Scopus |
May 2014 | Life has an open peer-review option |
November 2014 | Life was indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC) |
December 2018 | Life became an affiliated journal of The Astrobiology Society of Britain (ASB) |
February 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 Awards | |
June 2020 | Life received its first Impact Factor (2.991) |
Editors-in-Chief
2011 | Founding Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Marie-Paul Bassez |
2011– | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Helga Stan-Lotter for Section “Life Sciences” |
2011–2013 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Antonio Bianconi for Section “Physics” |
2014 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Pabulo H. Rampelotto |
2014– | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. William Bains for Section “Hypotheses in the Life Sciences” |
2016–2018 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. David Deamer |
2018–2019 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Muller |
2020– | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ron Elber for Section “Biochemistry, Biophysics and Computational Biology” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Bruce J. Nicholson for Section “Biochemistry, Biophysics and Computational Biology” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Katalin Prokai-Tatrai for Section “Medical Research” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ramón Cacabelos for Section “Pharmaceutical Sciences” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andrew Pohorille for Section “Astrobiology” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stefano Gianni for Section “Proteins and Proteomics” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Lluís Ribas de Pouplana for Section “Genetics and Genomics Research” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Koichiro Tamura for Section “Evolutionary Biology” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nicola Smania for Section “Physiology and Pathology” |