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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Emanuela Volpi, PhD, FHEA, FRSB, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
A person smiling at cameraDescription automatically generated Prof. Volpi  is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Westminster in London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. She earned a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. Before joining Westminster, she held post-doctoral positions at Cancer Research UK, a research tenure at the Italian National Research Council, and was Head of Molecular Cytogenetics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. Her research expertise is in molecular cytogenetics and chromosome biology, with specific focus on genome functional organisation, chromosomal fragility and instability, nuclear architecture, and cancer biomarkers. She co-chairs the ‘Chromosomes’ integrity, stability and dynamics’ permanent working group of the European Cytogeneticists Association

Founding Editor

Yuri Yurov, PhD, National Research Center of Mental Health, Russia (deceased 2017)

Emeritus Editors
Henry H. Heng, PhD, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA
Ivan Iourov, DSc, National Research Center of Mental Health, Russia

Associate Editors
Jeremy Squire, MSc, PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Peining Li, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory, USA

Editorial Board
Mona Abo-Zeid, PhD, National Research Centre, Egypt
Ninette Cohen, PhD, FACMG, Northwell Labs, New York, USA
Alexander Hoischen, PhD, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands
N. Indhumathi, PhD, Head of Department, Medical Genetics, Apollo Hospitals, India
Awadhesh Jha, PhD, FRSB, Professor in Genetic Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
Leslie D. Kulikowski MSc, PhD, DSc, Coordinator of the Laboratory of Cytogenomics and Molecular Pathology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Radhia M'kacher, PhD, General Director of Research & Development at Cell Environment, France
Elisabeth Nacheva, MD, PhD, UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences, and Health Service Laboratories, United Kingdom
Antonio Percesepe, MD, PhD, Università di Parma, Italy
Ilda Patricia Ribeiro, MSc, PhD, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Joan Blanco Rodriguez, PhD, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain   
Trude Schwarzacher, PhD, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Kundan Sengupta, MSc, PhD, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India
Erica Soster, MSc, Department of Genetics at Labcorp, USA
Malgorzata Ilona Srebniak, PhD, Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Netherlands
Annette Uwineza, MD, PhD, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Rwanda, Rwanda
Joris Vermeesch, PhD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 
Heather E. Williams, PhD, MBA, MS, PgD, ErCLG, CG(ASCP)MB, Chief Operating Officer at Cache DNA, Inc, USA
Maisa Yoshimoto, PhD, FACMG, FCCMG, University of Alberta, Canada

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 1.3
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 1.3
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.672
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.403

    Speed 2024
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 5
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 98

    Usage 2024
    Downloads: 553,038
    Altmetric mentions: 97