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Editorial 2025

2024; Wiley; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/1755-0998.14051

1755-0998

Shawn R. Narum, Joanna L. Kelley, Benjamin Sibbett,

Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications

Heading into 2025, Molecular Ecology Resources continues as a leader in publication of broad resources for the molecular ecology community. Molecular Ecology Resources has ranked highly (> 90th percentile) for several years in categories of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology based on impact factor and additional indicators. The current impact factor (IF) for MER is 5.5, which is lower than previous years. However, other impact metrics that are less sensitive to quirks introduced by the new calculation of IF provide a more consistent picture for MER such as observed with the 5-year IF (7.8 compared to 8.0 in previous year), h5-index (66 which is the same as the previous year) and Scopus (CiteScore = 15.6 compared to 12.9 in previous year). The journal continues to navigate changes in the publishing landscape that includes new competition for quality papers, more options for open access, and improvements in the peer-review process. Ultimately, we strive to provide high-quality resources for the community with rigorous publication ethics and standards. Further, we aim to support our authors, reviewers and readers with responsive interaction and a high-quality experience. Top resources published in Molecular Ecology Resources in the last year include key contributions across multiple subject areas. One article in each issue may receive extra attention through publication as a "From the Cover" article. Further, Perspective articles are intended to highlight major advances and top contributions to the journal, and these articles are coordinated by News & Views Editor, Joanna Kelley. In the last year, articles on the cover of Molecular Ecology Resources focused on multiple new resources for the community including: refining the analytical resources for studies on landscape genetic resistance (Beninde, Wittische, and Frantz 2024), a new method for genotype–environment association studies called WZA (weighted Z analysis) (Booker et al. 2024), guidance for species delimitation in circumstances with limited sampling (Opatova, Bourguignon, and Bond 2024), advances in eRNA applications that can discern species life stages and population demographics (Parsley and Goldberg 2024), a useful review of metabarcoding pipelines (Hakimzadeh et al. 2024), a guide for applying local ancestry inference methods (Oliveira, Marchi, and Excoffier 2024), demonstration of genomics informed breeding practices to reduce inbreeding and genetic load in captive populations (Speak et al. 2024), and illustration of drone sampling to collect samples from baleen whales for population monitoring (O'Mahony et al. 2024). Additional top articles published in 2024 as selected by Editor-in-Chief Shawn Narum include a structured approach to the fastsimcoal2 package for demographic inference in conservation genetics or archaeogenetics (Marchi, Kapopoulou, and Excoffier 2024), a review of practical applications for estimating effective sizes (Waples 2024), non-invasive age estimation of bottlenose dolphins from methylation patters of faecal DNA samples (Yagi et al. 2024), genotyping of individual terrestrial mammals from snow track samples (DeBarba et al. 2024), and a fascinating example of a jumping supergene S-locus that controls heterostyly in several angiosperms (Potente et al. 2024). We would like to express our appreciation to our team of Associate Editors for their contributions as well as our Junior Editorial Board. A complete list of the current Editorial Board for Molecular Ecology Resources is listed in Appendix A with individual biographies on the journal website. We also offer our gratitude to Pierre Taberlet who has served on the editorial board for 25 years and made extensive contributions to the journal. Finally, we are grateful to our reviewers for providing their expertise to our peer-review system; a list of reviewers for Molecular Ecology Resources in the past year is listed in Appendix B. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Shawn Narum, University of Idaho/Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, USA. Executive Editor Ben Sibbett, Wiley. News and Views Editor Joanna Kelley, Washington State University, USA. Reviews Editor Joanna Freeland, Trent University, Canada. Associate Editors Alana Alexander, University of Otago, New Zealand. Paula Arribas, IPNA-CSIC, Spain. Frederic Austerlitz, National Museum of Natural History, France. Nick Barton, IST Austria, Austria. John Benzie, University of College Cork, Ireland. Holly Bik, University of Georgia, USA. Pim Bongaerts, California Academy of Sciences, USA. Aurélie Bonin, Joseph Fourier University, France. Camille Bonneaud, University of Exeter, UK. Jason Bragg, Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Australia. Luke Browne, Yale University, USA. Ana Caicedo, University of Massachusetts, USA. Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Robert Koch Institute, Germany. Samridhi Chaturvedi, Tulane University, USA. David Coltman, University of Alberta, Canada. Simon Creer, Bangor University, UK. Mitch Cruzan, Portland State University, USA. Angus Davison, University of Nottingham, UK. Andrew DeWoody, Purdue University, USA. Brent Emerson, IPNA-CSIC, Spain. Nick Fountain-Jones, University of Minnesota, USA. Kimberly Gilbert, University of Bern, Switzerland. Rosemary Gillespie, University of California Berkeley, USA. Tatiana Giraud, Paris-Sud University, France. Alison Goncalves Nazareno, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Michael Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark. Shotaro Hirase, University of Tokyo, Japan. Paul Hohenlohe, University of Idaho, USA. Kayla King, University of Oxford, UK. Andrew Kinziger, Humboldt State University, USA. Carla Martins Lopes, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil. Josephine Pemberton, University of Edinburgh, UK. Yanhua Qu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, AZTI, Spain. Jorge Rodrigues, University of California, USA. Sean Rogers, University of Calgary, Canada. Jacob Russell, Drexel University, USA. Christian Schlötterer, University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria. Sean Schoville, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Suhua Shi, Sun Yat-sen University, China. Victoria Sork, University of California, USA. Pierre Taberlet, Joseph Fourier University, France. Isheng Jason Tsai, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Clement Tsui, Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar. Maren Wellenreuther, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Alison Wright, University of Sheffield, UK. Jeremy Yoder, California State University, USA. Lucie Zinger, Paul Sabatier University-Toulouse III, France. Junior Editorial Board. Tom Booker, University of British Columbia, Canada. Yann Dorant, French National Institute for Ocean Science, France. Kaichi Huang, University of British Columbia, Canada. Arne Jacobs, University of Glascow, Scotland. Antonino Malacrinò, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Angel Rivera-Colon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Jana Wold, University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. The authors have nothing to report.