NOTE: This journal has been discontinued and is no longer open for submissions. The information provided below is static and relates to articles published in this journal before it ceased publication at the end of 2025.

Growth and Form is an international, peer-reviewed journal which is devoted to the geometric analysis of growth and form, static and dynamic, as visible in such areas as biology, chemistry and physics. Click here for the full Aims & Scope of this journal.

Access type: Open Access (all articles free to read, download, copy and distribute under the terms of the applicable user license). Click here for more details.

User license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International). More information can be found here. Note that in exceptional cases other user licenses can be applied to individual articles to comply with government regulations or funding mandates.

Article publication charges (APC): This journal has been discontinued at the end of 2025 and is no longer open for submissions. An APC price is therefore not applicable.

Peer review type: Single-blind (names of reviewers are hidden from the authors). More details on the peer review process can be found here.

Ethics framework: This journal strictly adheres to the ethical standards as outlined in the policies of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and is fully compliant with those standards. For more information on these ethics policies please click here.

Indexing and archiving: This journal is currently indexed in Google Scholar, Ulrichsweb, CNKI and Wanfang Data, and digitally preserved in the e-Depot of the National Library of The Netherlands. More indexes and archives will be added to this list in due course. Click here for complete details on the indexing and archiving status for this journal.

Publication schedule: Half-yearly (two issues per year in June and December).

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All issues: An overview of all issues published in this journal can be found here.

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