Annual Reviews (publisher)

Annual Reviews is an independent non-profit organization based in San Mateo, California. Annual Reviews' stated mission is to synthesize and integrate knowledge "for the progress of science and the benefit of society". As of 2025, Annual Reviews publishes 51 academic journals of review articles for researchers in the fields of life, biomedical, physical, and social sciences; Knowable Magazine and Knowable en español, science journalism for the public; and Katina magazine for librarians, publishers and vendors. Annual Reviews also supports the Charleston Conference for librarianship and Knowledge Unlatched for crowdfunding open access to scholarly resources. Annual Reviews developed the open access initiative Subscribe to Open (S2O). Under S2O a journal's newest volume is published open access if subscription support is sufficient. For 2023 and 2024, all 51 volumes were released as open access under the S2O model.

The first Annual Reviews journal, the Annual Review of Biochemistry, was published in 1932 under the editorship of Stanford University chemist J. Murray Luck, who wanted to create a resource that provided critical reviews of contemporary research. The second journal was added in 1939. By 1982, Annual Reviews published 24 titles, and by 2021 it published 51 journals of reviews. Review articles are usually "peer-invited" solicited submissions which then go through a peer-review process. Issues are planned one to two years in advance. The organizational structure has three levels: a volunteer board of directors, editorial committees of experts for each journal, and paid employees.