''Hereditas'' (not to be confused with another journal called ''Heredity'') is a

scientific journal In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. Content Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such as s ...

concerning

genetics Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar wor ...

. It has been published since 1920 by Mendelska sällskapet i Lund (Mendelian Society of Lund). In its long history it has published important papers in the field of genetics, including the first discovery of the correct human chromosome count by Joe Hin Tijo and

Albert Levan Albert Levan (8 March 1905 – 28 March 1998) was a Swedish botanist and geneticist. Albert Levan is best known today for co-authoring the report in 1956 that humans had forty-six chromosomes (instead of forty-eight, as previously believed). Thi ...

in 1956. In the post-genomic era, the scope of ''Hereditas'' has evolved to include any research on genomic analysis. In 2005, ''Hereditas'' changed from a traditional subscription-based journal to become an

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

, web based and author funded journal. By the end of 2014, Hereditas terminated its activity with Wiley Publishers. In May 2015 ''Hereditas'' was re-launched and became part of the portfolio of the open access publisher Biomed Central (BMC), now owned by

Springer Nature Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macm ...

. It is indexed by BIOSIS, DOAJ, MEDLINE, Science Citation Index, and Scopus. The impact factor (IF) of 2019 is 2.4. Editors-in-chief (EiC): Robert Larsson (1920–1954), Arne Müntzing (1955–1977), Arne Lundqvist (1978–1988), Karl Fredga and Arne Lundqvist (1989–1996), Ulf Gyllensten (1996–2001), Anssi Saura (2002-2011), Stefan Baumgartner (2012 -), Yongyong Shi (2016 -, in parallel to Baumgartner).

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