Editors-in-Chief
Laura A. Katz
Adam Eyre-Walker
Social Media Editor
Casey McGrath
Editorial Office
Nikki Parsons
About the journal
Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE) is a fully open access journal that publishes leading original research at the interface between evolutionary biology and genomics.
Find out moreSpecial Sections & Collections
Human Genetic Diversification
Continuing our celebration of 40 years of SMBE journals, this virtual issue contains a selection of papers published by GBE that are relevant to human genetic diversification.
Neutralist/Selectionist Debate
This virtual issue contains a selection of papers published by GBE that are relevant to the neutralist-selectionist debate.
Inferential Methods
This virtual issue contains a selection of methods papers published in GBE over the last 10 years, collating impactful and meaningful research in the topic.
Why Publish in GBE?
GBE is a society-owned journal, published by a not-for-profit organization, and has a generous and inclusive waiver policy for those unable to pay APCs. Read more about why you should submit your next research paper to GBE.
High-Impact Research Collection
Explore a collection of freely available high-impact research from 2020 and 2021 published in Genome Biology and Evolution.
Browse the collection here
SMBE 40th Anniversary
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution, we are launching a series of virtual issues in 2024. Each virtual issue will be accompanied by a Perspective that highlights the historic and contemporary contributions of our journals to a specific topic in molecular evolution.
Celebrate 40 years of meaningful research and delve into these collections
2023 Reviewer List
GBE would like to acknowledge and thank the following reviewers for their contributions in the period of 1 January – 31 December 2023.
SMBE Journals' Website
Discover the SMBE journals’ website bringing GBE and MBE together for the first time on a unified platform.
GBE Metrics
Impact Factor: 3.3 (20 out of 52 in Evolutionary Biology)
5 Year Impact Factor: 3.5
Google h5-index: 48 (9th in Evolutionary Biology)
The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2024 Annual Meeting
Join us at the 2024 Annual Meeting taking place July 7-11, 2024 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico at Convention Center Puerto Vallarta.
About SMBE
The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) is an international organization whose goals are to provide facilities for association and communication among molecular evolutionists and to further the goals of molecular evolution, as well as its practitioners and teachers.
Scientific Society Publisher Alliance
The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution is a member of the Scientific Society Publisher Alliance (SSPA), an initiative focused on building awareness of and support for publication of scientific research by scientist-run scientific societies.