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About

Bioscience Horizons (ISSN:1754-7431) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal publishing outstanding undergraduate and master’s international research in the biosciences free of charge. 

The journal produces insightful and original opinion pieces and news articles that disseminate bioscience awareness to the general public and contribute to scientific progress. Our submissions come from all around the world.

Bioscience Horizons is a University College London (UCL) project in association with UCL Press. The journal is managed by UCL students supervised by a board of academics from different universities in the UK.

You will find more information about the journal at https://biosciencehorizons.wixsite.com/biosciencehorizons.




Copyright Notice

Please note that the Article cannot be submitted and the Journal cannot proceed to publication of the Article if the terms of the UCL Open Access Student Journals Article Contributor Agreement are not agreed to by the Corresponding Contributor Author. By submitting to the Journal the Corresponding Contributor Author confirm that the article (or any iteration of it) is not under consideration for publication by any other publisher and has not already been published under another publisher’s imprint and hereby agrees to the UCL Open Access Student Journals Article Contributor Agreement Terms https://ucl.janewaysharedhosting.com/site/contributor_agreement on behalf any/all co-authors and all authors understand that these terms apply to the article when published.


Peer Review

Peer-reviewed articles submitted to the Journal are subject to double-blind peer review, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during the review.

Licences

Bioscience Horizons allows the following licences for submission:

  • CC BY 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.


Publication Fees

All UCL Open Access Student Journals do not charge an Article-Processing Charge (APC) for submission or publication. UCL Open Access Student Journal authors of accepted papers will not be required to make an APC payment for submission or publication before publication of their article.


Publication Cycle

This journal is published continuously (as and when articles are ready for publication following peer review) all year round.

Sections

Section or article type

Public Submissions

Peer Reviewed

Indexed

Original Research Article

Review Article

Perspective piece

News & opinion