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About Royal Society Publishing
Supporting excellence in science
Recognising, publishing, and promoting excellence in science are part of our core values. Our leading hybrid and open access journals are committed to broad coverage of all science, and specialise in publishing cross disciplinary research and the proceedings of scientific meetings. We welcome submissions from anywhere in the world supporting the diverse breadth of scientific expertise on a global scale. As a non-profit society publisher, any income we generate goes back into supporting and progressing the global scientific community, and helping address global challenges such as the climate crisis.
Since the first issue of Philosophical Transactions in 1665, publishing has been at the heart of the Royal Society’s mission. We have spent over 350 years publishing innovative, multi-disciplinary scientific research from around the world. Those publishing with us join revolutionary authors such as Srinivasa Ramanujan, Kathleen Lonsdale, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Dorothy Hodgkins, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, to name but a few.
Learn more about what our authors say.
Discover more about what we offer
- Explore our portfolio of scientific journals
- Join our valued author community and submit your work to us
- Access our content through Read and Publish agreements, and perpetual and subscription access
- Check out our journals archive from 1665 to 1996 – all papers up to 1950 are free to access
- Discover our society mission and values
Explore how we support the scientific community
As part of our commitment to support open access, as well as two journals already fully open access, our four transformative research journals will become fully open access upon reaching the 75% open access papers threshold. We strongly advocate open science policies and play a crucial role in supporting the research community with open science practices.
With a reputation for high quality scientific research and practices, we publish international interdisciplinary findings over the broad spectrum of science with open peer review. We support a wide range of innovative formats.
- Our Evidence Synthesis and Science Society and Policy article types allow scientific research to inform policymaking and public debate.
- Proceedings B's Biological Science Practices address scientific practices within biology that influence research quality, scientific community health and the public understanding of science.
- Open Biology's Open Questions article type highlight current developments in an area of basic biomedical science that is developing quickly and ripe for discovery. Methods and Techniques articles present new or advanced methods, software, databases, or tools and a new 'Opening Up' section of manuscripts after the 'Discussion' actively encourages authors to place their results in a wider context and discuss their broader implications.
- Royal Society Open Science publishes Registered Reports, a format of empirical article that eliminate the bias against negative results in publishing because the results are not known at the time of review, and Replication studies, attempted replications of studies previously published.
Our rapid and personal author services are supported by our diverse expert community of editorial board members and peer reviewers. Discover more about our publishing process:
- How we measure publishing impact
- How quickly we publish quality research
- How we support open science
- How we help authors with APC waiver
- How we recognise peer reviewers
Publishing activities
Projects and activities related to our publishing programme.
