Berkala Penelitian Hayati is a half yearly international peer reviewed, an open access life science journal. The journal was published by The East Java Biological Society and formerly used the Indonesian language. The first edition of this journal is Vol 1 No 1 in June 1995. It was accredited by Ministry of Culture and Education. It continues recorded by Zoological Record by Thomson Reuters Clarivate Analytics since 2011. Since April 2012, the journal was changed into English. This journal is indexed by DOAJ, Crossref, Google Scholar, Academia.edu, and EBSCO Host. This journal publishes original research, applied, review article, and educational articles in all areas of biology. Authors are encouraged to submit complete unpublished and original works that are not under review in other journals. This journal publishes original research, applied, review articles, and educational articles in all areas of biology. Authors are encouraged to submit complete unpublished and original works that are not under review in other journals. The journal scopes include, but are not limited to, the following topic areas including botany, zoology, ecology, microbiology, physiology, nanobiology, coastal biology, hydrobiology, neurobiology, genetics, developmental biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, biophysics, and life science.