# BioScience

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{{Short description|Peer-reviewed scientific journal}}
{{About|the journal|bioscience in general|List of life sciences}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox journal
| title = BioScience 
| cover = 
| editor = Charles Fenster
| discipline = [Biology](/source/Biology)
| former_names = 
| abbreviation = BioScience
| publisher = [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) on behalf of the [American Institute of Biological Sciences](/source/American_Institute_of_Biological_Sciences)
| country = 
| frequency = Monthly
| history = 1964–present
| openaccess = 
| license = 
| impact = 8.589
| impact-year = 2020
| website = http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/
| link1 = http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
| link1-name = Online access
| link2 = http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
| link2-name = Online archive
| link3 = http://aibsbulletin.oxfordjournals.org/
| link3-name = Online archive of the ''AIBS Bulletin''
| JSTOR = 
| OCLC = 610211421
| LCCN = 82643645
| CODEN = BISNAS
| ISSN = 0006-3568
| eISSN = 1525-3244
}}

'''''BioScience''''' is a monthly [peer-reviewed](/source/peer_review) [scientific journal](/source/scientific_journal) that is published by [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) on behalf of the [American Institute of Biological Sciences](/source/American_Institute_of_Biological_Sciences).<ref>[https://academic.oup.com/bioscience Oxford University Press to publish BioScience journal from 2019]</ref> It was established in 1964 and was preceded by the ''AIBS Bulletin'' (1951–1963).

The journal publishes [literature review](/source/literature_review)s of current research in [biology](/source/biology), as well as [essay](/source/essay)s and discussion sections on education, public policy, [history of biology](/source/history_of_biology), and theoretical issues.<ref name=BioSciWebsite>{{cite web |title=About the journal |url=http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/bioscience/about.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140825161826/http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/bioscience/about.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 August 2014 |work=BioScience|publisher=Oxford University |access-date=13 April 2015}}</ref>

== Abstracting and indexing ==
The journal is abstracted and indexed in [MEDLINE](/source/MEDLINE)/[PubMed](/source/PubMed) (1973–1979),<ref name=MEDLINE>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/231737 |title=Bioscience |work=NLM Catalog |publisher=[National Center for Biotechnology Information](/source/National_Center_for_Biotechnology_Information) |access-date=2014-03-25}}</ref> the [Science Citation Index](/source/Science_Citation_Index), [Current Contents](/source/Current_Contents)/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, [The Zoological Record](/source/The_Zoological_Record), and [BIOSIS Previews](/source/BIOSIS_Previews).<ref name=ISI>{{cite web |url=http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ |title=Master Journal List |publisher=[Thomson Reuters](/source/Thomson_Reuters) |work=Intellectual Property & Science |access-date=2014-03-25 |archive-date=26 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926150543/http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to the ''[Journal Citation Reports](/source/Journal_Citation_Reports)'', the journal has a 2020 [impact factor](/source/impact_factor) of 8.589.<ref name=WoS>{{cite book |year=2021 |chapter=BioScience |title=2020 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=[Thomson Reuters](/source/Thomson_Reuters) |edition=Science |series=[Web of Science](/source/Web_of_Science) |title-link=Journal Citation Reports }}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/}}
* [http://www.aibs.org/bioscience/ Journal page] at the [American Institute of Biological Sciences](/source/American_Institute_of_Biological_Sciences)

Category:Biology journals
Category:Academic journals established in 1964
Category:Oxford University Press academic journals
Category:Monthly journals
Category:English-language journals
Category:Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of the United States

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