Royal Society Open Science is an open journal publishing high-quality original research on the basis of objective peer-review.

The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics and allows the Society to publish all the high-quality work it receives without the usual restrictions on scope, length or impact. Demonstrating its commitment to best practice in open access publishing, Royal Society Open Science has been awarded the DOAJ Seal.

The journal has a number of distinguishing features:

objective peer-review (publishing all articles which are scientifically sound and useful to the community)
makes the reviewer reports, decision letter and associated author responses accessible alongside published articles, with referees having the option to sign their reports
articles embody open data principles
each article has a suite of article level metrics and we encourage post-publication comments
the Editorial team consists entirely of practising scientists and draws upon the expertise of the Royal Society’s Fellowship
in addition to direct submissions, it accepts for consideration articles referred from other Royal Society journals, as well as via a collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Royal Society Open Science welcomes the submission of all high-quality science including articles which may usually be difficult to publish elsewhere, for example, replications or those that include negative findings. The journal covers life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, engineering and computer science. Unfortunately, work that has a strong clinical focus, including but not limited to clinical psychology, will not be considered for publication, and any exceptions will be at the sole discretion of the Editor.