Annual Reviews (publisher)

This article is about the publisher and its eponymous journal series. For other uses and similarly named publications, see Annual Review (disambiguation).

Annual Reviews

Founded	1932
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Palo Alto, California
Publication types	Academic journals
Nonfiction topics	Science and social science
Official website	www.annualreviews.org

Annual Reviews is a nonprofit journal publisher of 51 review series in specific disciplines in science and social science based in Palo Alto, California.

Each review series contains 12 to 40 authoritative comprehensive review articles, covering the major journal articles on a specific topic during the preceding few years. The major topics in each subject are covered every few years, and special topics appear as appropriate. The reviews are widely used in teaching and research, and serve the purposes both of current awareness and introduction to a new subject. Since in scientific literature it is customary to cite in detail the sources only since the most recent review, these periodicals are among the highest ranking journals in impact factor for their subjects, as shown in the publisher's table. The reviews are written in a compact narrative style, with a minimum of descriptive text for each article covered. Many authors provide lists of summary points and future issues. The length of each review and the number of articles covered vary widely depending on both the topic and the preferences of the author. The articles are written by invitation to the authors, who are accepted authorities on the material covered.

Availability

Each series is available as a bound annual volume; subscriptions are sold for the print version, online version, or both, or as individual articles purchased online. They are also available as a database consisting of some or all of the series, with site licenses available. The back years of the entire collection can be purchased for a one-time price. Effective January 2008, purchasing a subscription includes online access that entitles you to permanent data rights to that volume regardless of future subscription status. Customers with 2007 online subscriptions will retain access to the volumes that they have previously purchased. In 2017 and 2018, the Annual Review of Public Health was available without subscription; the 2019 volume requires a subscription, but earlier volumes remain open access.

History

The first series to be published was Annual Review of Biochemistry, which began in 1932. Additional series are started every few years, with the topics appropriate to the growth of scientific research. All Annual Review series became available online in 1996. Since 2004 most series have been richly illustrated in color. In 2017, Annual Reviews launched Knowable Magazine, their first non-academic title, with grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Moore Foundation. It provides journalistic coverage of science.

List of titles

Main category: Annual Reviews academic journals

Years in parentheses indicate the first year of publication. As of 2020, the publications included the following:

A

• Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry (2008)
• Annual Review of Animal Biosciences (2013)
• Annual Review of Anthropology (1972)
• Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (1963)

B

• Annual Review of Biochemistry (1932)
• Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering (1999)
• Annual Review of Biophysics (1972)
• Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science (2018)

C

• Annual Review of Cancer Biology (2017)
• Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (1985)
• Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2010)
• Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (2005)
• Annual Review of Computer Science (1986–1990)
• Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics (2010)
• Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (2018)

D

• Annual Review of Developmental Psychology (2019)

E

• Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (1973)
• Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (1970)
• Annual Review of Economics (2009)
• Annual Review of Entomology (1956)
• Annual Review of Environment and Resources (1976)

F

• Annual Review of Financial Economics (2009)
• Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (1969)
• Annual Review of Food Science and Technology (2010)

G

• Annual Review of Genetics (1967)
• Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics (2000)

I

• Annual Review of Immunology (1983)

K

• Knowable Magazine (2017)

L

• Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2005)
• Annual Review of Linguistics (2015)

M

• Annual Review of Marine Science (2009)
• Annual Review of Materials Research (1971)
• Annual Review of Medicine (1950)
• Annual Review of Microbiology (1947)

N

• Annual Review of Neuroscience (1978)
• Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science (1952)
• Annual Review of Nutrition (1981)

O

• Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior (New in 2014)

P

• Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease (2006)
• Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology (1961)
• Annual Review of Physical Chemistry (1950)
• Annual Review of Physiology (1939)
• Annual Review of Phytopathology (1963)
• Annual Review of Plant Biology (formerly Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology) (1950)
• Annual Review of Political Science (1998)
• Annual Review of Psychology (1950)
• Annual Review of Public Health (1980) - previous volumes of this journal are now open access.

R

• Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009)

S

• Annual Review of Sociology (1975)
• Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application (2014)

V

• Annual Review of Virology (2014)

External links

• Annual Reviews home page