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Impact Factor: 0.9 (JCR 2024)
Acceptance rate: 24%
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Submission to final decision: 3 months
Acceptance to publication: 9 months
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Home Archives Volume 12 Important note: Completion and release of this issue was originally scheduled for November 2025. However, due to application of additional editorial quality checks, the release was
Completion of Corrections and Retractions Concerning the Content Published in the Year 2023 under New Qualtiy Control SOPs. We feel confident to share that, as a result of the implementation of newly developed Quality Control SOPs, all applicable retractions have been made according to industry standards and COPE guidelines. A complete list of retractions (DOI links) has been shared with Web of Science....
We are very excited to annouce that Advancements in Life Sciences and Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore are organizing one day Web of Sciences conference entitled “International Scholarly Publishing from Pakistan” at National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, Lahore on 11th March 2019 collaboration with HEC....
Just after two years from the date of first issue the Journal "Advancements in Life Sciences (ALS)" has been recognized by the HEC in "Y" category. The ALS has already been indexed by the ISI web of science and we are confident that ALS will get the impact factor in the next year. HEC Recognized Journals - 2018...
Advancements in Life Sciences has got indexed for coverage in the Thomson Reuters: Emerging Sources Citation Index, which is the New Edition of the Web of Science. This means that all articles published in the journal will be indexed in the Web of Science....
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