Journal profile · Evolutionary Biology
Evolutionary Bioinformatics
ISSN 1176-9343 · Libertas Academica Ltd. · NEW ZEALAND · Quarterly · Founded 2005
Evolutionary Bioinformatics: CAS Zone 4 · Biology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.63; fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; median 166 days to acceptance (13 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: about 25%; 3 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Evolutionary Bioinformatics is published by Libertas Academica Ltd. and is in Zone 4 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms and Genetic diversity and population structure, together about 41.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology and Genetics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Evolutionary Bioinformatics is an open access, peer reviewed international journal focusing on evolutionary bioinformatics. The journal aims to support understanding of organismal form and function through use of molecular, genetic, genomic and proteomic data by giving due consideration to its evolutionary context.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): Evolutionary Biology
Editor-in-chief Gustavo Caetano-AnollésPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 6%); most named United States 17, United Kingdom 3, India 3, Mainland China 2, France 2 (32 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Genomics and Phylogenetic StudiesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24.6%
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanismsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9.4%
- Genetic diversity and population structureBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7.9%
- Bioinformatics and Genomic NetworksBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.9%
- Machine Learning in BioinformaticsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.8%
- Evolution and Genetic DynamicsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.6%
- Chromosomal and Genetic VariationsAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.8%
- RNA modifications and cancerBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Biology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Biology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Evolutionary Biology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Mathematical & Computational Biology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Biology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Biology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Evolutionary Biology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Mathematical & Computational Biology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Biology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Biology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Evolutionary Biology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Mathematical & Computational Biology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.63LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.38LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.42LetPub ·
- h-index
- 26LetPub ·
- h-index
- 51OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 319OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.6OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 3LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 668 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 9 | 9 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024 | 18 | 18 | 44 |
| 2023 | 17 | 17 | 86 |
| 2022 | 29 | 29 | 150 |
| 2021 | 30 | 30 | 439 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
166 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 140 days – 197 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 30 days (13 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 187 days
- Sample
- 13 articles with submission and acceptance dates (16 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 25%LetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 5.3%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 74 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 141 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 37 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Anonymous peer reviewLetPub
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 300 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 6,000 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted10, with length limits
- letter to the editorThese brief opinion pieces should be as concise as possible. A letter to the editor is a brief communication that addresses the contents of a published article.…Length not stated
- letters to the editord Letter to the Editor, if they desire. Letters to the editor should be structured for peer review as follows: one or two paragraphs totaling no more than 1000 …main text ≤ 1,000 words
- literature reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- meta-analysisThese include statistical procedures, mainly conducted in the context of a systematic review, that combine the results of multiple independent primary studies a…Length not stated
- original research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- perspectiveView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- review articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- systematic reviewSystematic reviews consist of systematic quantitative and/or qualitative syntheses of research. Manuscripts submitted in this category may contain a statistical…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. Open Access agreement …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Libertas Academica Ltd.
- Country or region
- NEW ZEALAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 2005
- ISSN
- 1176-9343
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Evolutionary Bioinformatics
What CAS zone is Evolutionary Bioinformatics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Evolutionary Bioinformatics is in Zone 4 of Biology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Evolutionary Biology / Mathematical & Computational Biology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Biology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Evolutionary Bioinformatics?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.63; CiteScore 3.1, h-index 51.
How long does peer review take at Evolutionary Bioinformatics?
Based on the dates recorded on 13 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 166 days (interquartile range 140–197 days); authors report an average review time of about 12 months; the community-reported acceptance is “about 25%”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 5.3%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Evolutionary Bioinformatics?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 6,000 words; Reference style: AMA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Evolutionary Bioinformatics based?
Of the 32 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 6%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (17), United Kingdom (3) and India (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Evolutionary Bioinformatics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Evolutionary Bioinformatics is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Evolutionary Bioinformatics open access, and what is the APC?
Evolutionary Bioinformatics is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .