Overview
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Journal of Molecular Evolution focuses on deciphering features of molecular evolution and the processes related to these features.
- Publishes subfields such as new genome sequences, comparative genomics, population genetics, and the evolution of gene regulation and gene interaction networks.
- Presents experimental, computational, and theoretical work.
- Examines comparative structural and functional genomics, among other topics.
- Covers the evolution of informational macromolecules and their relation to complex levels of biological organization.
- Explores molecular basis for the evolution of ecological interactions of species and the use of molecular data to infer fundamental processes in evolutionary ecology.
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- Editor-in-Chief
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- David Liberles
- Journal Impact Factor
- 2.0 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 2.6 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 9 days
- Downloads
- 353,227 (2023)
Latest issue
Volume 92, Issue 5Special issue on Early Evolution and the Last Common Ancestor
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Journal of Molecular Evolution: A European Meeting, Madrid 2025
August 25-27, 2025
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Zuckerkandl Prize
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Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1432-1432
- Print ISSN
- 0022-2844
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Current Contents/Life Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Medline
- Meta
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Pathway Studio
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Zoological Record
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