Politics and the Life Sciences is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 that was first published in July 1982 with Thomas Wiegele as the editor. It is published by the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences was formed in 1981 and exists to study the field of biopolitics as a subfield of political science. APLS owns and publishes an academic peer-reviewed journal, called Politics and the Life Sciences , semi-annually in March and September...

, currently edited by Erik P. Bucy.

Editors

• 1981-1991 : Thomas C. Wiegele, Northern Illinois University
  Northern Illinois University
  Northern Illinois University is a state university and research institution located in DeKalb, Illinois, with satellite centers in Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon. It was originally founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895 by Illinois Governor John P...
  
  
• 1991-2001 : Gary R. Johnson, Lake Superior State University
  Lake Superior State University
  Lake Superior State University is a small public university in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It is Michigan's smallest public university with an enrollment around 3,000 students. Due to its proximity to the border, notably the twin city of Sault Ste...
  
  
• 2001-2008 : Robert Hunt Sprinkle, University of Maryland
  University of Maryland
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• 2008-present : Erik P. Bucy, Indiana University
  Indiana University
  Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
  
  

Indexing and archiving

The journal is available, to various levels, in Academic Search

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 databases (International Political Science Abstracts, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection, and Social Sciences Abstracts), which are provided by EBSCO Publishing

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. It is also partially indexed in MEDLINE

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.

In January 2007 the journal was added to BioOne

BioOne

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 as part of its second collection BioOne.2, and in October 2008 it was added to JSTOR

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 with a 3 year moving wall.