BMC Ecology and Evolution (since January 2021), previously BMC Evolutionary Biology (2001âÂÂ2020), is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all fields of evolutionary biology, including phylogenetics and palaeontology. It was established in 2001 and is part of a series of BMC journals published by BioMed Central. It was an early journal to integrate with the Dryad Digital Repository to share supplementary data, and it also organises a yearly image competition to help capture the diversity of the planet's flora and fauna.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.260.