Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing highly summarized and practical information to global scientists, focusing on publishing authoritative review journals. It is over 70 years since the first journal Annual Review of Biochemistry® was publicated in 1932. The journal Annual Reviews covers 32 disciplines in the fields of biology, medicine, physics and social sciences.
Annual Reviews invites the most authoritative and leading scientists in a variety of disciplines to write reviews of the most cutting-edge advances in the discipline and to provide directional guidance for scientific research. The half-life of the Annual Reviews article is significantly longer than that of a single document.
The Annual Reviews series is the most cited publication, with all journals ranking in the top 10 in their respective areas. Among the 6,000 journal impact factors in the latest Institute for Scientific Information, the impact factor of Annual Reviews of Immunology topped the list with 52.280, and the impact factor of Annual Reviews of Biochemistry in second place with 37.647, and more than half of impact factor of Annual Reviews series are in the top 100, regardless of discipline.
The Annual Reviews online database provides a full text of the entire article in PDF format, dating back as far as 1932, and provide a link to references, which is convenient for users to view the relevant documents.