Journal Title：Biosocieties

BioSocieties is committed to the scholarly exploration of the crucial social, ethical and policy implications of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine. These developments are increasing our ability to control our own biology; enabling us to create novel life forms; changing our ideas of ‘normality’ and ‘abnormality’; transforming our understanding of personal identity, family relations, ancestry and ‘race’; altering our social and personal expectations and responsibilities; reshaping global economic opportunities and inequalities; creating new global security challenges; and generating new social, ethical, legal and regulatory dilemmas. To address these dilemmas requires us to break out from narrow disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences and humanities, and between these disciplines and the natural sciences, and to develop new ways of thinking about the relations between biology and sociality and between the life sciences and society.

BioSocieties provides a crucial forum where the most rigorous social research and critical analysis of these issues can intersect with the work of leading scientists, social researchers, clinicians, regulators and other stakeholders. BioSocieties defines the key intellectual issues at the science-society interface, and offers pathways to the resolution of the critical local, national and global socio-political challenges that arise from scientific and biomedical advances.

As the first journal of its kind, BioSocieties publishes scholarship across the social science disciplines, and represents a lively and balanced array of perspectives on controversial issues. In its inaugural year BioSocieties demonstrated the constructive potential of interdisciplinary dialogue and debate across the social and natural sciences. We are becoming the journal of choice not only for social scientists, but also for life scientists interested in the larger social, ethical and policy implications of their work. The journal is international in scope, spanning research and developments in all corners of the globe.

BioSocieties is published quarterly, with occasional themed issues that highlight some of the critical questions and problematics of modern biotechnologies. Articles, response pieces, review essays, and self-standing editorial pieces by social and life scientists form a regular part of the journal.

BioSocieties 致力于從學術角度探索生命科學和生物醫學發展的重要社會、倫理和政策影響。這些發展正在提高我們控制自身生物學的能力；使我們能夠創造新的生命形式；改變我們對‘正常’和‘異常’的觀念；轉變我們對個人身份、家庭關系、血統和‘種族’的理解；改變我們的社會和個人期望和責任；重塑全球經濟機遇和不平等；創造新的全球安全挑戰；并產生新的社會、倫理、法律和監管困境。要解決這些難題，我們需要突破社會科學和人文學科內部以及這些學科與自然科學之間狹隘的學科界限，并開發關于生物學與社會性之間以及生命科學與社會之間關系的新思維方式。《生物社會》提供了一個重要的論壇，在這里，對這些問題最嚴格的社會研究和批判性分析可以與領先的科學家、社會研究人員、臨床醫生、監管者和其他利益相關者的工作相交叉。《生物社會》定義了科學與社會界面上的關鍵智力問題，并為解決科學和生物醫學進步帶來的關鍵的地方、國家和全球社會政治挑戰提供了途徑。

作為同類期刊中的第一本，《生物社會》發表跨社會科學學科的學術研究成果，并代表了對有爭議問題的一系列生動而平衡的觀點。在創刊的第一年，它展示了跨社會和自然科學的跨學科對話和辯論的建設性潛力。我們不僅成為社會科學家的首選期刊，而且成為對其工作更廣泛的社會、倫理和政策影響感興趣的生命科學家的首選期刊。該期刊具有國際視野，涵蓋全球各個角落的研究和發展。雜志每季度出版一次，偶爾會刊登專題，重點介紹現代生物技術的一些關鍵問題和難題。社會和生命科學家撰寫的文章、回應文章、評論文章和獨立社論是該期刊的常規部分。

Biosocieties創刊于2006年，由Springer Nature出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL全領域，此期刊水平偏中等偏靠后，在所屬細分領域中專業影響力一般，過審相對較易，如果您文章質量佳，選擇此期刊，發表機率較高。平均審稿速度 ，影響因子指數1.3，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預警名單，廣大學者值得一試。