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Juha Merilä, Daphne Fairbairn, Stuart West, Mats Björklund, Pierre‐Oliver Cheptou, Allen Moore, Mike Ritchie, Editorial, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 18, Issue 6, 1 November 2005, Page 1375, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.01036.x
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Journal Evolving
The Journal of Evolutionary Biology is doing well. The number of submissions continues to increase at a steady rate of 11% per year, and about 600 submissions are expected to be received by the end of the year 2005. The quality of manuscripts is in general high, as is reflected in our good and stable journal impact factor (2.893). To accommodate increasing numbers of submissions, the journal is increasing its page numbers (Fig. 1) and becoming about 20% thicker in 2006 when compared with 2004. Whilst this will allow faster printing of the accepted manuscripts, it will not translate automatically to a higher acceptance rate. We will continue with keeping our standards high, which is also reflected in a slight, but steady decrease in acceptance rate (currently ca. 28%) over the past 3 years.
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The scope and the aims of the journal have remained the same during its 18‐year (1987–2005) history: we wish to publish a broad journal in which the focus is on evolutionary processes. We accept both empirical and theoretical papers from molecular to macroevolution, and in particular, encourage submissions combining theory and empirical data.
