Journals
Discover new research from across the sciences in our international, high impact journals. Find out more about our values as a not-for-profit society publisher, our support for open science and our commitment to research integrity.
Our journals

Philosophical Transactions A
Influential themed journal issues across the physical, mathematical and engineering sciences.

Philosophical Transactions B
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

Interface Focus
Themed issues covering cross-disciplinary research at the interface between the physical, life and social sciences.

Proceedings A
The Royal Society’s physical sciences research journal, publishing high-quality research and review articles from all disciplines in the physical sciences.

Proceedings B
The Royal Society's flagship biological research journal, dedicated to the fast publication and worldwide dissemination of high-quality research.

Interface
Cross-disciplinary research at the interface between the physical and life sciences.

Biology Letters
A Royal Society journal focused on the rapid publication of short high quality research articles, reviews and opinion pieces across the biological sciences.

Open Biology
A fast, open access Royal Society journal publishing high impact biology at the molecular and cellular level.

Royal Society Open Science
A fast, open journal publishing high-quality research across all of science, engineering and mathematics.

Notes and Records
The Royal Society journal of the history of science.

Biographical Memoirs
A unique compilation of memoirs celebrating the lives and scientific achievements of Fellows of the Royal Society.
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