Why choose this journal?
Why publish in the International Journal of Astrobiology?
- Broad range of topics: published work covers topics across Astrobiology, such as cosmic prebiotic chemistry, planetary evolution, extremophile biology, Mars as an abode of life, life detection in our solar system and beyond, as well as societal and educational aspects of astrobiology
- No page charges or length restrictions
- Rapid publication: your article will be published online as soon as it is accepted
- State-of-the-art online hosting including forward reference linking and an inbuilt, easily-navigable HTML article viewing window with media enhancements to text-based content
- Accessibility: This journal is fully gold open access, meaning that all content is free to access for readers and authors, regardless of their affiliations.
- Responsive web page design: all pages scale and adjust according to the screen size and resolution of the device on which the reader is viewing the site
- Cambridge-designed journal display templates providing polished paper presentation and meta-data quality checks to improve article discoverability
- Open Access: Due to the extensive Read & Publish deals held by the journal publisher, Cambridge University Press, many institutional authors have the option to publish open access at no extra cost. Any authors without funding/read & publish deals can take advantage of the discretionary waivers available.
- Mini Reviews: option to publish mini reviews of < 10 pages
- High quality copy-editing
- Authors retain copyright of their work