Annual Reviews Mission Statement

The Scientific Review
The mission of Annual Reviews is to provide systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science through critical authoritative reviews. The comprehensive critical review not only summarizes a topic but also roots out errors of fact or concept and provokes discussion that will lead to new research activity. The critical review is an essential part of the scientific method.

Reviews of the Highest Quality
Annual Reviews was founded as a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping scientists the world over cope with the ever-increasing volume of scientific research and data in a growing number of disciplines. Since the publication of the first Annual Review of Biochemistry in 1932, Annual Reviews has brought to its readers the best in comprehensive and affordable scientific review literature. The Annual Review volumes have become an indispensable part of t he development of many disciplines.

Annual Review's Principles of Dissemination of Scientific Information
Annual Reviews is a non-profit organization created and managed by scientists to serve science by publishing reviews in 40 different scientific fields. Annual Reviews' mission is to intelligently synthesize scientific literature in a review format and to ensure that this information is then widely distributed and easily available.

Annual Reviews sets the price of these reviews at a level which will recover actual costs including a provision for the development of new volumes and expanded means of dissemination. The prices are among the lowest in all scientific literature. For more information, please view our Pricing Policy page.

Annual Reviews provides its reviews free or at very low cost to libraries and institutions throughout the developing world via such initiatives as HINARI and AGORA. Annual Reviews authors are free to electronically archive, with attribution, their published Annual Review chapters.

Historically Annual Reviews' articles have had a significantly longer usage life than the primary literature. Its Impact Factors, a measure of the number of times the average article is cited, are among the highest in the world. After over 70 years of service to the scientific community, Annual Reviews remains dedicated to these principles and will continue to innovate both in the range of disciplines and the means of dissemination.

Annual Reviews
We have been serving the scientific community for over 75 years and are committed to providing the best in science review literature to help ease the ever increasing problem of information overload on the science researcher.