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Evolution: Education and Outreach coverEvolution: Education and Outreach promotes accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience. The journal explores the practical applications of evolutionary principles in daily life and the impact of evolutionary theory on culture and society throughout history.

Targeting K-16 students, teachers and scientists alike, the journal presents articles to aid members of these communities in the teaching of evolutionary theory. It connects teachers with scientists by adapting cutting-edge, peer reviewed articles for classroom use on varied instructional levels. The journal features multi-authored papers written by teachers and scientists and offers teaching tools such as unit and lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as additional online content.

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Call for Papers: Diversity and Inclusion in the Evolutionary Sciences

In many countries throughout the world, the scientific workforce engaged in the study of evolution fails to reflect the diversity of its citizens. Evolution: Education and Outreach invites submissions from scientific organizations, biologists, social scientists, and educators working to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion in the evolutionary sciences to advance understanding of and promoting solutions to this challenge.

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Evolution: Education and Outreach is now indexed by Scopus.

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Aims and scope

Evolution: Education and Outreach promotes accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience. Evolution: Education and Outreach addresses the question of why we should care about evolution by exploring the practical applications of evolutionary principles in daily life and the impact of evolutionary theory on culture and society throughout history.

Targeting K-16 students, teachers and scientists alike, the journal presents articles to aid members of these communities in the teaching of evolutionary theory. It connects teachers with scientists by adapting cutting-edge, peer reviewed articles for classroom use on varied instructional levels. The journal features multi-authored papers written by teachers and scientists and offers teaching tools such as unit and lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as additional online content such as podcasts and powerpoint presentations.

Evolution: Education and Outreach:

  • Promotes accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience
  • Explores the practical applications of evolutionary principles in daily life and the impact of evolutionary theory on culture and society throughout history
  • Offers teaching tools such as unit and lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as additional online content such as podcasts and powerpoint presentations

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    1.588 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    1.070 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed 
    11 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    201 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage
    1,029,742 downloads
    1,291 Altmetric mentions 

This journal is indexed by

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    • Google Scholar
    • DOAJ
    • EBSCO Science Reference Center
    • EBSCO Discovery Service
    • OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
    • ProQuest Biological Science Database
    • ProQuest Natural Science Collection
    • ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection
    • Zoological Record
    • UGC-CARE List (India)
    • TD Net Discovery Service
    • SCImago
    • ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
    • ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
    • ProQuest Central
    • Naver
    • Meta
    • Dimensions
    • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA
    • CNKI
    • BFI List
    • ANVUR

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ISSN: 1936-6426 (print)