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Journal overview

 

Aims and scope:

Evolutionary Bioinformatics is an international, peer-reviewed journal focusing on evolutionary bioinformatics. There is growing awareness that to understand organismal form and function, through the use of molecular, genetic, genomic, and proteomic data, due consideration must be given to an organism's evolutionary context - history constrains the path an organism is obliged to take, and leaves an indelible mark on its component parts. Evolutionary Bioinformatics publishes papers on all aspects of computational evolutionary biology and evolutionary bioinformatics.

Editorial standards and procedures:

All submissions to this journal, with the exception of editorials and dedications (obituaries), are subject to rigorous peer review by a minimum of two peer reviewers who demonstrate current research experience in the paper's subject area.  Reviewers are required to provide in-depth, fair and objective reviews.  They may not act as reviewers if they are in a conflict of interest.  All final publishing decisions are made by the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor.

Official journal of the Bioinformatics Institute:

Evolutionary Bioinformatics was established as the official journal of The Bioinformatics Institute.  The Institute is a joint-venture between the University of Auckland, situated in New Zealand’s largest city, and AgResearch, New Zealand’s largest Crown Research Institute. Allen Rodrigo, Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, is the Institute’s Director, and it was at his initiative that the journal was established.

Working in collaboration with The Institute is Libertas Academica, a publishing firm committed to high editorial standards, open access publishing methodologies and superior user-service standards. There is much work involved ‘behind-the-scenes’ that goes towards the finished result seen by readers of Evolutionary Bioinformatics. Key amongst this work, which also includes attracting the best submissions, supervising effective peer review and typesetting, is gaining acceptance for indexing by outside organizations.

Indexing:

Evolutionary Bioinformatics is indexed by:

• Pubmed
• Pubmed Central
  
• CAS
• DOAJ
• Embase
• Embiology
• Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch®)
• Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
• Current Contents®/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences
• Current Contents®/Life Sciences
• Google Scholar
• EBSCO Academic Search Complete
• OAIster
  

SPARC Europe Seal award winner:

This journal has been awarded a SPARC Europe Seal. The Seal is an initiative of SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) which is awarded to journals applying a Creative Commons CC-BY copyright license and that make journal metadata accessible to DOAJ.  

Amongst other important services DOAJ makes metadata OAI-compliant.  This in turn enhances the visibility of papers and allows OAI-harvesters to include the details of journal articles in their services. We encourage readers to make use of this valuable resource.  The DOAJ search page is available here.

National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy compliant:

As of April 7 2008, the US NIH Public Access Policy requires that all peer reviewed articles resulting from research carried out with NIH funding be deposited in the Pubmed Central archive.

If you are an NIH employee or grantee Libertas Academica will ensure that you comply with the policy by depositing your paper at Pubmed Central on your behalf. 

Information for authors

 

Call for papers:

Read the Editor in Chief's latest call for papers here.

Submission types accepted:

Submissions of the following types of manuscripts are accepted:

• Original research articles.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. They may cover basic science and clinical reviews, ethics, pro/con debates, and equipment reviews.
• Commentaries: focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue.
• Hypotheses: articles that present an original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable.
• Letters to the Editor: these can be either a re-analysis of a previously published article, or a response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication.
• Methodology articles: these discuss a new experimental method, test or procedure. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• Meeting reports: a report pertaining to activity at a meeting or conference Articles published in this journal are immediately available without delay upon publication and enjoy substantial visibility.
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. Case reports must meet appropriate ethical standards.

All submissions are subject to prompt, objective and fair peer review in compliance with our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.  Copyright in published articles remains with the author(s).  Authors are continually informed of the progress of their paper and our staff are friendly and responsive. 

One author recently wrote: "I would like to say that this is the most author-friendly editing process I have experienced in over 150 publications. Thank you most sincerely."

Criteria for publication: 

Publication is dependent on peer reviewers' judgement of papers.  Reviewers are asked to provide thoughtful and unbiased feedback to authors to ensure that the conclusions of papers are valid and manuscripts achieve reasonable standards of scholarliness and intelligibility. 

Previous work in the field must be acknowledged and papers should read without unreasonable difficulty.  Papers should fit comfortably within the scope of the journal.

Reviewers are asked to act in a fair, objective and constructive manner which maintains quality standards and helps authors to communicate their research.  They are instructed that in areas of genuinely novel research issues may be raised which cannot immediately be resolved and that absolutely rigorous validation of data may therefore not be possible. 

More information on the role of peer reviewers is available on the information for reviewers page.  Where authors consider that reviewers have made recommendations which are unreasonable, unobjective or ill-founded they may appeal them to the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.

Articles submitted to other journals:

We are willing to consider papers which have been peer reviewed by other journals but not accepted for publication. 

Services for authors:

Prior to peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper's reference style revised to meet our requirements,
• Have your paper's English revised by specialist English-speaking technical editors.

After peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper revised in accordance with peer reviewer's recommendations and have a summary of responses to the reviewers created by our specialist external substantive editors,
• Provide bound reprints of your article in colour or black and white ,
• Provide online-early rapid publication if your paper prior to typesetting.

What other authors have said:

Libertas Academica actively requests, receives and acts upon feedback from authors, readers and editorial boards.  Here's what some recent authors have said about us:

"Within a couple of days the reviewers had been procured and the manuscript was out."

"The communication between your staff and me has been terrific.  Whenever progress is made with the manuscript, I receive notice.  Quite honestly, I've never had such complete communication with a journal."

"LA is different, and hopefully represents a kind of scientific publication machinery that removes the hurdles from free flow of scientific thought."

Article processing fees:

All submissions to this journal are subject to an article processing fee if they are accepted for publication.  Article processing fees are used to fund the processing of your paper and development of the journal.  Article processing fees are the only compulsory charge you will face and do not vary according to word count, page count, colour figures or any other factor.  There is no additional charge for the author(s) to make any use of their article and no charge to readers to access it.

Full fee waivers are available for authors working in undeveloped nations and partial discounts of 20-50% are available to authors in other nations.  Authors must be able to verifiably demonstrate their suitability for a discount or waiver.  Availability of waivers and discounts is subject to monthly availability and is given at the publisher's discretion.  Waivers and discounts must be applied for prior to submission.  Neither are available after submission.

Register as a peer reviewer:

Do you wish to register as a peer reviewer?  Or are you already a registered peer reviewer but you need to update your contact details?   To register or update your details visit the peer reviewer registration form. 

Applicants must be able to demonstrate at least five years of continuous experience in the journal's subject area including at least two in the previous 24 months.

Editor in Chief profile

 

Dennis Wall is a member of the faculty at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School where he runs a research lab in translational and evolutionary bioinformatics. He has published on a diverse set of topics in the areas of evolutionary biology and network analysis of disease, and has created widely used resources for both evolutionary and translational research, most notably Roundup and Autworks. 

He has received numerous grants and awards, including an NSF postdoctoral fellowship in biological informatics, the Fred R. Cagle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biology, the Vice Chancellor's Award for Research, several awards for excellence in teaching, and a Harvard Leadership award.

>> Dr Wall's latest call for papers

Editorial Board

 

Patrick Aloy, PhD
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Miguel Andrade, PhD
Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Olivier Bastien, PhD
Institut de la Recherche Technologique et des Sciences du Vivant, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Grenoble, France

Peter Beerli, PhD
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

Erich Bornberg-Bauer, PhD
University of Münster, Münster, Germany

David Bryant, PhD
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Keith Crandall, PhD
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

Alexei Drummond, PhD
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Laurent Excoffier, PhD
University of Bern, Bern Switzerland

Joe Felsenstein, PhD
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Darren Flower, PhD
Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research, Compton, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Olivier Gascuel, PhD
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Monpellier, Montpellier, France

Derek Gatherer, PhD
Medical Research Council Virology Unit, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Russell Gray, PhD
Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand

John Hancock, PhD
MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Mike Hendy, PhD
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Jaap Heringa, PhD
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Guy Hoelzer, PhD
University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, USA

Chris Holmes, PhD
Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Susan Holmes, PhD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

John Huelsenbeck, PhD
University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

Daniel Huson, PhD
Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany

John R Jungck, PhD
Beloit College, Beloit, WI, USA

Hirohisa Kishino, PhD
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Bette Korber, PhD
Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe Institute, Los Alamos, NM, USA

Martin Kreitman, PhD
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Sudhir Kumar, PhD
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Francois-Joseph Lapointe, PhD
University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Gerald H Learn, PhD
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Peter Lockhart, PhD
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Marcie McClure, PhD
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA

Enrique Morett, PhD
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Rasmus Nielsen, PhD
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mark Pagel, PhD
Professor, Evolutionary Biology Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK.  Founding Editor in Chief, Evolutionary Bioinformatics.

David Posada, PhD
University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

Mark Ragan, PhD
University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

Andrew Rambaut, PhD
Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Bruce Rannala, PhD
University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA

Allen Rodrigo, PhD
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Meena Kishore Sakharkar, PhD
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Steven Salzberg, PhD
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

Michael Sanderson, PhD
University of California, Davis, CA, USA

Hidetoshi Shimodaira, PhD
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Hamish Spencer, PhD
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

David States, MD, PhD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Mike Steel, PhD
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Joel Sussman, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Tin Wee Tan, PhD
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Simon Tavaré, PhD
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Alan Templeton, PhD
Washington University at St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA

Jeffrey Thorne, PhD
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

John R Wakeley, PhD
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Mark Wilkinson, PhD
The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Carsten Wiuf, PhD
University of Aarhus, Denmark

Ziheng Yang, PhD
University College, London, United Kingdom

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