About the journal
A place to publish the argument and the evidence
Journal of Evolutionary Science is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Open Access Pub. It exists so that work across the whole of evolutionary science — not one sub-discipline of it — can be read in one place, with the reasoning behind each claim set out where other researchers can examine it.
- PublisherOpen Access Pub
- ISSN2689-4602
- Publishing since2018
The journal's role in the field
Evolutionary science is argued across several literatures at once. Sequence data, population studies, comparative morphology, the fossil record, formal models and conceptual analysis all bear on the same questions, and they are usually published apart from one another.
This journal is organized around the questions rather than around the technique. A phylogenetic analysis, an experimental evolution study, a methods paper, a synthesis of existing evidence and a formal treatment of evolutionary process are read here as different ways of addressing the same subject, and each is assessed on the strength of the case it makes.
That breadth is deliberate. Fundamental and applied research both belong here, as do the methods and resources that make evolutionary questions answerable, and the analysis of what evolutionary claims assert. What the journal asks in every case is that the contribution to evolutionary science is substantive and that the grounds for it are given.
In short
A journal for work that argues — where a claim, the evidence for it, and the reasoning that connects them are published together and can be answered in the literature.
Who the journal is for
The readership the journal writes for, and the kind of use each makes of it.
- Researchers in evolutionary science
- Reading and publishing primary work on evolutionary process, pattern and history, and following an argument through the evidence offered for it.
- Researchers in adjacent fields
- Ecologists, developmental and molecular biologists, epidemiologists, paleontologists and statisticians whose questions meet evolutionary ones, and who need that meeting published somewhere it will be read by both.
- Methodologists and resource builders
- Researchers whose contribution is an inference method, a model, a pipeline or a curated dataset, and who need it assessed as a contribution in its own right.
- Historians and philosophers of biology
- Scholars examining evolutionary concepts and their development, alongside the empirical work those concepts organize.
Editorial responsibility
Decisions are made by named researchers who are answerable for them. The editorial board oversees peer review and upholds the journal's standards for evolutionary research.
Editors recuse themselves from decisions on their own submissions, and those manuscripts are handled independently. Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. Those decisions remain independent of fees, services, memberships, and editorial roles.
Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. The editorial policies set out ethics, authorship, conflicts of interest, corrections and data requirements in full, and the editorial board page lists every member with their affiliation and research area.
Publishing conditions
The terms an author or reader is working under, stated plainly. Each is set out in full on its own page.
Access
Open access. Every article is free to read from the day it is published.
Rights
CC BY 4.0. Authors retain copyright in their work.
Charges
An article processing charge applies after acceptance; the amounts are on the charges page.
Identifiers
Each article is registered with Crossref under the DOI prefix 10.14302.
The journal's published record is listed by volume and issue in the archive.
Reading further
Scope, policies and author requirements each have a page of their own; this one stays with the journal's purpose.