Annual Reviews (publisher)

This article is about the publisher and its journal series. For other uses and similarly named publications, see Annual Review (disambiguation).
Annual Reviews
Founded1931 (1931)
FounderJ. Murray Luck
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationSan Mateo, California[1]
Key people
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Publication typesAcademic journals, online magazine
Nonfiction topicsLife, biomedical, physical, and social sciences
Official websitewww.annualreviews.org

Annual Reviews is an independent, non-profit academic publishing company based in San Mateo, California. As of 2021, it publishes 51 journals of review articles and Knowable Magazine, covering the fields of life, biomedical, physical, and social sciences.[3] Review articles are usually "peer-invited" solicited submissions, often planned one to two years in advance, which go through a peer-review process.[4] The organizational structure has three levels: a volunteer board of directors, editorial committees of experts for each journal, and paid employees.[5]

Annual Reviews' stated mission is to synthesize and integrate knowledge "for the progress of science and the benefit of society".[6][7] The first Annual Reviews journal, the Annual Review of Biochemistry, was published in 1932 under the editorship of Stanford University chemist J. Murray Luck, who wanted to create a resource that provided critical reviews on contemporary research. The second journal was added in 1939. By 1982, Annual Reviews published 24 titles, and by 2021 it published 51. In 2016, the company piloted the "Subscribe to Open" (S2O) publishing model, under which a journal's newest volume is published open access as long as subscription support is sufficient. As of 2022, all 51 journals are being offered under the S2O model.

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  4. ^ Durham, William H. (October 2004). "Preface: A "Peer-Invited" Publication". Annual Review of Anthropology. 33 (1): annurev.an.33.090204.100001. doi:10.1146/annurev.an.33.090204.100001. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
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  6. ^ "What We Do". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
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