Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Journal of Evolutionary Biology is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd and is in Zone 3 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Plant and animal studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction and Genetic diversity and population structure, together about 43.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Genetics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Evolutionary Biology (JEB) is a peer-reviewed, international journal owned by the European Society of Evolutionary Biology. We are seeking to publish articles that advance our understanding of the evolutionary process and are of interest to a broad evolutionary readership. As such, we will prioritise rigorous and well-executed studies that ask novel questions and/or provide new insights, generalisable across taxonomic groups. We are happy to publish negative results as long as these provide robust new insights, but will not normally publish studies that replicate previous results in the same or different taxa (unless doing so provides genuinely novel understanding). We consider submissions describing research from across the field of evolutionary biology, including evolutionary genetics and genomics, molecular evolution and phylogenetics, life histories, evolutionary ecology, development or morphology. We cover both micro- and macro-evolution, as well as empirical, computational and theoretical work. We accept submissions of primary research articles, as well as perspectives, reviews and methods articles. In addition, we are happy to consider manuscripts dealing with aspects of science policy and the societal impact of research, insofar as they relate to evolutionary biology. See our Author Guidelines for specifics of our article types. All articles are published in English. We are conscious of the additional effort and obstacles that this imposes on many non-native speakers. As long as the meaning is clear, we are happy to accept submissions of articles whose phrasing reflects the local origin of the authors. Although we are working on solutions, we are currently unable to accept manuscripts that would require significant language editing in order to be peer-reviewed and subsequently publishable. The Editorial Board reflects the journal's multidisciplinary remit and its international reach.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Evolutionary Biology

Editor-in-chief Max ReuterPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United Kingdom 11, United States 10, France 8, Germany 3, Spain 3 (54 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

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.

Impact

Impact factor

2.29LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

2.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

4.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.99LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.96LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

113LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

182OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4,490OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.62OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

54.24%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

134LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

3–6 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly hardLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

1987

ISSN

1010-061X

Electronic ISSN

1420-9101

Latest issue on the website

Volume 39, Issue 8 (August 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website