The society introduced the world's first journal exclusively devoted to science in 1665,
Philosophical Transactions, and in so doing originated the
peer review process now widespread in scientific journals. Its founding editor was
Henry Oldenburg, the society's first secretary.
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Through Royal Society Publishing, the society publishes the following journals:
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Philosophical Transactions is the oldest and longest-running
scientific journal in the world, having first been published in March
1665 by the first secretary of the society,
Henry Oldenburg. It now publishes themed issues on specific topics and, since 1886,
[49] has been divided into two parts; A, which deals with mathematics and the physical sciences,
[50] and B, which deals with the biological sciences.
[51] Proceedings of the Royal Society consists of freely submitted research articles and is similarly divided into two parts.
[52] Biology Letters publishes short research articles and opinion pieces on all areas of biology and was launched in 2005.
[53] Journal of the Royal Society Interface publishes cross-disciplinary research at the boundary between the physical and life sciences,
[54] while
Interface Focus,
[55] publishes themed issue in the same areas.
Notes and Records is the Society's journal on the history of science.
[56] Biographical Memoirs is published annually and contains extended obituaries of deceased Fellows.
[57] Open Biology is an
open access journal covering
biology at the
molecular and
cellular level.
Royal Society Open Science is an
open access journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer-review.
[58] All the society's journals are
peer-reviewed.
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