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Biological invasions

Guest Editors
Gary Bucciarelli, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, UC Davis, US
Victoria Dominguez Almela, PhD, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK
Josie South, PhD, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Submission Status: Open until 8 August 2024

Automated and remote biodiversity monitoring

Guest Editors:
Jenni Raitoharju, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Luiz G. M. Silva, ETH-Zürich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Switzerland

Submission Status: Open until 19 July 2024

Ecosystem restoration, regeneration and rewilding

Guest Editors:
Carmel McDougallUniversity of St Andrews, Scotland
Nancy Shackelford: University of Victoria, Canada

Submission Status: Open until 7 June 2024

Agroecology: protecting, restoring, and promoting biodiversity

Guest Editors:
Jessica Knapp: Department of Botany, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Andrea Sciarretta: Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

Submission Status: Open until 27 March 2024

Plants under pressure: the impact of environmental change on plant ecology and evolution

Guest Editors:
Isabel Barrio: Agricultural University of Iceland, Iceland
Alessandro Rapini: The State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil

Submission Status: Open until 31 May 2024

Published

Paleoecology of extinct species

Guest Editors:
Michael Pittman:
School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong, China
Yucheng Wang: Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Evolutionary biology and ecology of cancer

Guest Editors:
David Basanta: Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Ignacio González Bravo: CNRS Montpellier, France

2022

Biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainable development
Collection closed


2021

Applications of environmental DNA and RNA in ecology
Collection closed

Retrospective cross journal collection
BMC Series focus issue: Our changing environment 
Collection published: April 2021


2014

Cross journal collection
Avian genomes collection
Collection published: 11 December 2014

Cross journal collection
Reviewer acknowledgements 2013
Collection published: 26 February 2014


2011

Cross journal collection
The tammar wallaby genome and transcriptome
Collection published: 10 August 2011


2010

Cross journal collection
Zebra finch: the companion papers for the publication of the zebra finch genome sequence
Collection published: 30 October 2010

Cross journal collection
Open Access Biodiversity Research
Collection published: 25 May 2010


2009

Cross journal collection
Bovine: the companion papers for the publication of the bovine genome sequence
Collection published: 24 April 2009

Cross journal collection
Daphnia: the companion papers for the genome sequence
Collection published: 3 April 2009

Annual Journal Metrics

  • For BMC Evolutionary Biology (former title)

    2022 Citation Impact
    3.4 - 2-year Impact Factor
    3.6 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.061 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.968 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    29 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    193 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    1,882,764 downloads
    3,013 Altmetric mentions

    Transparency and Openness
    TOP Factor score - 9

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