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RationalWiki:Scientific journals
Popular science, nature & technology magazines[edit]
The below publications feature news, comment and analysis about scientific knowledge in a way meant to be more accessible to the general public. Contents may have been written by scientists, non-scientists who are otherwise experts of some kind, science-focused journalists, or possibly guest writers.
- American Scientist
- The Conversation
- Interesting Engineering
- Natural History
- National Geographic
- New Scientist
- Popular Mechanics
- Popular Science
- Science News
- Scientific American
- The Scientist
Peer reviewed journals[edit]
The journals below feature original research, as well as news, comment and analysis of this research, which has been reviewed by fellow scientists.
Multi-disciplinary journals[edit]
- Nature
- PLoS One
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Science (or "Science Magazine")
Specialist evolutionary biology journals[edit]
- Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Molecular Biology and Evolution
- Journal of Molecular Evolution
- Infection, Genetics and Evolution
- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- Plant Systematics and Evolution
- Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology
- Journal of Mammalian Evolution
- Evolutionary Ecology Research
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution
- BMC Evolutionary Biology (open access)
Specialist biochemistry journals[edit]
- Annual Review of Biochemistry
- Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
- Biochemical Genetics
- Biochemistry
- Biochemistry and Cell Biology
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Biophysical Chemistry
- Biochemical Journal
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
- Biochemical Society Transactions
- International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
- The FEBS Journal (formerly the European Journal of Biochemistry)
Specialist general biology journals[edit]
- Journal of Cell Biology (free from 6 months old back to 1955)
- American Society for Microbiology
- The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal
- Developmental Biology Journal
- BioEssays
- Molecular & Cellular Biology
Specialist ethology/evolutionary psychology journals[edit]
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Hormones and Behavior
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Evolution and Human Behavior
- Animal Behaviour
- Behavior Genetics
- Brain, Behaviour & Evolution
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Human Nature
- Behavioral Ecology
- Journal of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences
- Journal of Comparative Neurology
- Journal of Ethology