Genetics (journal)


Genetics is a monthly scientific journal publishing investigations bearing on heredity, genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology. Genetics is published by the Genetics Society of America. It has a delayed open access policy, and makes articles available online without a subscription after 12 months have elapsed since first publication. Since 2010, it is published online-only. George Harrison Shull was the founding editor of Genetics in 1916.

Editors-in-Chief

Editor-in-ChiefTerm
George Harrison Shull1916–1925
Donald F. Jones1926–1935
L. C. Dunn1936–1939
Marcus Morton Rhoades1940–1946
Curt Stern1947–1951
R. A. Brink and James F. Crow1952–1956
Clarence Paul Oliver and Wilson Stone1957–1962
David D. Perkins1963–1967
F. W. Caspari1968–1972
D.R. Stadler1973–1976
G. Lefevre1977–1981
John W. Drake1982–1996
Elizabeth W. Jones1996–2008
Mark Johnston2008–2021
Howard Lipshitz2021–present