Journal History
| 2010 | The inaugural issue was released. Genes was published as a monthly journal. Genes was indexed in Chemical Abstracts (CAS) indexing database. |
| 2011 | Genes was indexed in EMBASE and Scopus. Genes was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| 2014 | Genes was indexed in PubMed. |
| 2015 | Genes was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Biological Abstracts, and BIOSIS Previews. Genes received its first Impact Factor (1.151), ranked 144/167 (Q4) in category “Genetics & Heredity”. Genes was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| 2016 | The new Impact Factor of Genes was 3.242, and the 5-Year Impact Factor was 2.370, ranked 60/165 (Q2) in the category “Genetics & Heredity”. |
| 2017 | The new Impact Factor of Genes was 3.600, and the 5-Year Impact Factor was 3.584, ranked 56/166 (Q2) in the category “Genetics & Heredity”. |
| 2018 | Genes received its CiteScore (2017) of 3.49. The new Impact Factor of Genes was 3.191, and the 5-Year Impact Factor was 3.286, ranked 69/171 (Q2) in the category “Genetics & Heredity”. |
| 2019 | The new Impact Factor of Genes was 3.331, and the 5-Year Impact Factor was 3.484, ranked 61/174 (Q2) in the category “Genetics & Heredity”. |
| 2020 | The new Impact Factor of Genes was 3.759, and the 5-Year Impact Factor was 3.822, ranked 53/177 (Q2) in the category “Genetics & Heredity”. Genes announced 1st International Electronic Conference on Genes (IECGE). |
| 2021 | The new Impact Factor of Genes was 4.096, and the 5-Year Impact Factor was 4.339, ranked 66/176 (Q2) in the category “Genetics & Heredity”. |
| 2022 | The new Impact Factor of Genes was 4.141, and the 5-Year Impact Factor was 4.474, ranked 72/175 (Q2) in the category “Genetics & Heredity”. |
| 2023 | The new Impact Factor of Genes was 3.5, and the 5-Year Impact Factor was 3.9, ranked 65/171 (Q2) in the category “Genetics & Heredity”. |
| 2024 | The new Impact Factor of Genes was 2.8, and the 5-Year Impact Factor was 3.3, ranked 85/191 (Q2) in the category “Genetics & Heredity”. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2010–2023 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. J. Peter W. Young |
| 2023–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Selvarangan Ponnazhagan |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2016–2021 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Montserrat Corominas for the section on Technologies and Resources for Genetics |
| 2016–2023 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Selvarangan Ponnazhagan for the section on Human Genomics and Genetic Diseases |
| 2016–2024 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Thierry Wirth for the section on Microbial Genetics and Genomics |
| 2016–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Paolo Cinelli for the section on Molecular Genetics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Roel Ophoff for the section on Human Genomics and Genetic Diseases |
| 2017–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Roberto Tuberosa for the section on Plant Genetics and Genomics |
| 2018–2024 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nico M. Van Straalen for the section on Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics |
| 2019–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Elaine Ostrander for the section on Animal Genetics and Genomics |
| 2024–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Zissis Mamuris for the section on Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics |
