Why choose the Journal of Heredity for your research?
For a century, the Journal of Heredity has upheld a tradition of scholarly excellence in genetics research, boasting contributions from the field's foremost figures.
The Journal embraces organismal genetics and genomics across diverse domains, encompassing conservation genetics, phylogeography, molecular adaptation, and genotype-phenotype associations. Additionally, we now showcase high-quality genome assemblies for non-model organisms.
Discover why the Journal is your research's perfect home, and submit today to join our distinguished author community.
Reputation and Metrics
As the voice of the American Genetic Association (AGA), the Journal embodies the AGA's support for the genetics community. Celebrating symposia and pioneering early-career publications, the journal unites these AGA members' breakthroughs with fresh submissions.
Our active editorial board ensures thorough, transparent, and swift processing, with added support from the Oxford University Press Author Resource Centre. Manuscript decisions from Journal editors average 59 days from submission. Accepted manuscripts publish within a week on Advance Access.
Track the impact of your work in real time through article-level metrics, including Altmetrics and Dimensions data. Your paper could feature in the Journal's high-impact collections.
Open Access
Journal of Heredity offers the option of publishing under either a standard license or an open access license. Please note some funders require open access publication. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify requirements with your funder or institution.
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Innovative Digital Publishing
Your article will be on our Oxford Academic Platform, which provides a comprehensive suite of features and capabilities for authors. Oxford Academic is easy to use, allowing readers to discover your content from any device. The platform was developed using award-winning technology to meet the community’s research needs, including powerful searching across text and images, downloadable content to enable offline use, static DOIs and social tools so readers can share and discuss your article easily. Readers can also use their own accessibility tools and software, as we continue our work to adhere to evolving accessibility standards, including the World Wide Web Consortium guidelines.
Ready to Submit?
For more details on publishing with the Journal of Heredity, visit our author guidelines and submit your research today.
