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Overview
Discover Life is an open access journal publishing research from all fields relevant to biological and biomedical sciences. Springer Nature is offering a discount on publication costs in this journal until 31 December 2026. Authors whose articles are accepted for publication in Discover Life up to and including that date will pay a discounted article-processing charge. Note that the discounted APC period does not apply to any journal to which your article may be transferred if not accepted in Discover Life. Discounted charge: €1090/$1490/£990. Standard charge: €1890/$2190/£1590.
- Indexed in Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, with a 2025 CiteScore of 2
- Formerly Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, Discover Life has a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.7 and a 5-year Journal Impact Factor of 1.8.
- Considers articles from a broad range of biological and biomedical sciences disciplines.
- Topics include biodiversity, ecology, molecular biology, genomics, computational biology, mechanobiology, astrobiology, and more.
- A journal in Springer Nature’s Discover Series: Rigorous, representative and wide-reaching.
Journal metrics
- Journal Impact Factor
- 1.7 (2025)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 1.8 (2025)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 20 days
Calls for papers
Collection
In recent years, the rapid advancements in nanotechnology have brought about both remarkable innovations and unforeseen challenges, particularly...
- Status
- Open for submissions
- Submission deadline
- 11 August 2027
Collection
CD8+ T cells are central to durable antitumor immunity, yet their activity is frequently limited by progressive dysfunction, loss of cellular...
- Status
- Open for submissions
- Submission deadline
- 31 July 2027
Collection
Climate change is reshaping forest ecosystems worldwide through increasing temperatures, altered precipitation regimes, more frequent and severe...
- Status
- Open for submissions
- Submission deadline
- 23 July 2027
Latest articles
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- Rajat Sharma
- Rajni Garg
- Hamimullah Watandost
Research
Open access
12 November 2026
Article: 54
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- Fulgence N. Mpenda
- Delphinus K. Deogratias
- Modester D. Nkungu
Research
Open access
03 November 2026
Article: 53
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Methodology
Open access
27 October 2026
Article: 52
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- Avetis Tsaturyan
- Lala Stepanyan
- Giovanni Roviello
Review
Open access
27 October 2026
Article: 51
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- Stanslaus Terengia Materu
- Naza Emanuel Mmbaga
- Festo Richard Silungwe
Review
Open access
17 October 2026
Article: 50
Journal updates
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We are recruiting new Editorial Board Members.
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Learn more about our Editor-in-Chief.
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Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres became a fully open access (OA) journal as of 1 January 2024 and moved into our Discover series as Discover Life. We now only publish articles as Open Access, meaning content will be freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 2948-2976
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
- Current Contents/Life Sciences
- DOAJ
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Engineering Village – GEOBASE
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Meta
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Ovid Discovery
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- Wanfang
- eLibrary.ru
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