Molecular Biology and Evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution  
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
 Mol. Biol. Evol.
Discipline Evolutionary biology
Language English
Edited by Sudhir Kumar
Publication details
Publisher
Publication history
 1983–present
Frequency Monthly
Hybrid
9.105
Indexing
ISSN 0737-4038 (print)
1537-1719 (web)
LCCN 90648368
CODEN MBEVEO
OCLC no. 439813139
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Molecular Biology and Evolution is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal owned and edited by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution and published by Oxford University Press. It publishes work in the intersection of molecular biology and evolutionary biology. The founding editors-in-chief were Walter Fitch and Masatoshi Nei; the present editor-in-chief is Sudhir Kumar.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a impact factor:[1]

Year Impact Factor Total Articles Total Cites
2014 9.105 275 37529
2013 14.308 238 34971
2012 10.353 294 32168
2011 5.55 297 28313
2010 5.51 258 25812
2009 9.872 251 23784
2008 7.280 263 20661

Interestingly, the impact factors is strongly skewed and fluctuates every two years (in range of 4 units) in response to re-publishing the publication describing next version of MEGA software, widely used and extensively cited tool of Sudhir Kumar (editor-in-chief).

The journal charges authors an article-processing fee of $2500/€1875/£1450 (as of Feb 2016) for each open access article to be published.[2] Plus a charge of $300/€240/£160 per every colour figure.


References

  1. ↑ "Molecular Biology and Evolution". 2014 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
  2. ↑ "About MolBiolEvol". MolBiolEvol. Retrieved 14 February 2014.

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