Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that two of its biology journals, BMC Biology and Journal of Biology, have merged to become a single title. The combined journal, edited by Miranda Robertson, will be called BMC Biology.
The new BMC Biology will publish research and methodology articles of special importance and broad interest across all areas of biology and biomedical sciences. It will include high-profile commissioned content that to date has appeared only in the Journal of Biology.
The journal fusion is marked by a special collection of articles, which introduces a new feature - Video Q&A articles with prominent scientists - that provide a platform for leading researchers to express a personal perspective on a variety of scientific topics. The first Video Q&A features Martin Raff from University College London, who explains, as a grandfather and a neuroscientist, his interest in what goes wrong in autism, and how he thinks genomic and stem cell technology may lead to answers.
BMC Biology is already listed in Web of Science, tracked by ISI and ranked within the top 2 percent of all journals listed in Scopus (212 of 17,124). The journal has close to 50,000 registrants and research published in the journal regularly features in the scientific and mainstream press.
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