''Molecular Biology and Evolution'' is a monthly

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published by

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on behalf of the

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) is a scientific and academic organization founded in 1982 to support academic research in the field of molecular evolution. The society hosts an annual meeting, typically in June or July. It al ...

. It publishes work in the intersection of

molecular biology Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and physi ...

and

evolutionary biology Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life fo ...

. The founding

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were Walter Fitch and

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; the present editor-in-chief is Sudhir Kumar. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 10.217, a 2018

of 14.797, a 2019

of 11.062, and a 2021

of 8.800

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