Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Aims & Scope

Developmental Evolution is a branch of evolutionary biology that integrates evidence and concepts from developmental biology, phylogenetics, comparative morphology, evolutionary genetics and increasingly also genomics, systems biology as well as synthetic biology to gain an understanding of the structure and evolution of organisms.

The Journal of Experimental Zoology -B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution provides a forum where these fields are invited to bring together their insights to further a synthetic understanding of evolution from the molecular through the organismic level.

Contributions from all these branches of science are welcome to JEZB.

We particularly encourage submissions that apply the tools of genomics, as well as systems and synthetic biology to developmental evolution.

At this time the impact of these emerging fields on developmental evolution has not been explored to its fullest extent and for this reason we are eager to foster the relationship of systems and synthetic biology with devo evo.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.7
2024	1.80

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.791

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	73

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6879

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	3068

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
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• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Inferring species phylogenies from multiple genes: Concatenated sequence tree versus consensus gene tree

  Citation: 354

  Authors: Sudhindra R., Michael S., Sudhir

• Developmental basis of evolutionary digit loss in the Australian lizard <i>Hemiergis</i>

  Citation: 296

  Authors: Michael D., James, Nadia

• Phenotypic accommodation: adaptive innovation due to developmental plasticity

  Citation: 267

  Authors: Mary Jane

• Epigenetics, plasticity, and evolution: How do we link epigenetic change to phenotype?

  Citation: 242

  Authors: Elizabeth J., Peter D., Peter K.

• Evolution of the vertebral formulae in mammals: A perspective on developmental constraints

  Citation: 215

  Authors: Yuichi, Shigeru

• The phylogenetic distribution of metazoan microRNAs: insights into evolutionary complexity and constraint

  Citation: 213

  Authors: Lorenzo F., Charles N., Mark A., Kevin J.

• First evidence of chitin as a component of the skeletal fibers of marine sponges. Part I. Verongidae (demospongia: Porifera)

  Citation: 209

  Authors: Hermann, Manuel, Klaus‐dieter, Carsten, Thomas, René, Caren, Paul, Sascha, Hartmut

• Genetic basis of tooth agenesis

  Citation: 204

  Authors: Pekka

• The importance of signal pathway modulation in all aspects of tooth development

  Citation: 198

  Authors: Mark, Irma

• Adaptation to the land: The skin of reptiles in comparison to that of amphibians and endotherm amniotes

  Citation: 197

  Authors: Lorenzo

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