Journal Information

Aims and scope of journal
The European Journal of Human Genetics is the official journal of the European Society of Human Genetics, publishing high-quality, original research papers, short reports and reviews in the rapidly expanding field of human genetics and genomics. It covers molecular, clinical and cytogenetics, interfacing between advanced biomedical research and the clinician, and bridging the great diversity of facilities, resources and viewpoints in the genetics community.

Key areas include:

  • Monogenic and multifactorial disorders
  • Development and malformation
  • Hereditary cancer
  • Medical Genomics
  • Gene mapping and functional studies
  • Genotype-phenotype correlations
  • Genetic variation and genome diversity
  • Statistical and computational genetics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Advances in diagnostics
  • Therapy and prevention
  • Animal models
  • Genetic services
  • Community genetics

The journal also publishes invited editorials and commentaries, announcements of societal and other European activities and special issues of general interest for the human genetics community.

The European Journal of Human Genetics covers a range of subject areas, to read content across the scope of the journal view the journal's subjects page here.

Frequency
12 issues per year

Journal Metrics

Article metrics such as number of downloads, citations and online attention are available from each article page, and provide an overview of the attention received by a paper.

2022 Citation Metrics

2-year Impact Factor*: 5.2
5-year Impact Factor*: 4.6
Immediacy index*: 1.5
Eigenfactor® score*: 0.01518
Article influence score*: 1.7
Journal Citation Indicator*: 1.04

SNIP**: 1.676
SJR***: 1.764

*2022 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics, 2023)
**Source-normalized Impact per Paper (Scopus)
***SCImago Journal Rank (Scopus)

2023 Peer Review Metrics

Submission to first editorial decision: 14 days
Submission to Accept: 135 days

2023 Usage Metrics

Downloads: 2,216,154
Altmetric mentions: 5,031

Abstracted/indexed in

EBSCO Discovery Service
Google Scholar
OCLC
Summon by ProQuest
BIOSIS
Medline
Current Contents/Life Sciences
Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch)
SCOPUS
EBSCO Academic Search
EBSCO Advanced Placement Source
EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection
EBSCO Consumer Health Complete
EBSCO STM Source
EBSCO Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
EBSCO TOC Premier

ISSN and eISSN

International standard serial number (ISSN): 1018-4813
Electronic international standard serial number (eISSN): 1476-5438

Newsfeeds

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