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| Discipline | Taxonomy |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Fabio Cianferoni |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2011–present |
| Publisher | EJT Consortium |
| Frequency | Continuous |
| Open access | Yes |
| License | CC BY 4.0 |
| Impact factor | 1.398 (2021) |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Eur. J. Taxon. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus | |
| ISSN | 2118-9773 |
| OCLC no. | 758480175 |
| Links | |
The European Journal of Taxonomy is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal for descriptive taxonomy of living and fossil eukaryotes, covering subjects in zoology, botany, and palaeontology. It is supported by the EJT Consortium, a group of European natural history institutes, which fully funds the publication. Therefore, the journal is free for both authors and readers (diamond open access).
History
The journal was initiated by a task force of people from the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy network. The first article was published on 9 September 2011. In October 2015, the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities endorsed the journal.
Several older journals have been merged into the European Journal of Taxonomy:
- Journal of Afrotropical Zoology
- Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie
- Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie
- Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre
- Steenstrupia
- Zoologische Mededelingen
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Biological Abstracts
- BIOSIS Previews
- CAB Abstracts
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- The Zoological Record
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.372.
References
- ^ "About the Journal". Homepage. European Journal of Taxonomy. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
- Eibye-Jacobsen, Danny (2012). "Steenstrupia: a short history of the taxonomic journal of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, 1970–2012". Steenstrupia. 32 (2): 93–94. Archived from the original on 2024-07-16.
- ^ "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate . Retrieved 2021-12-13.
- "Serials cited". CAB Abstracts. CABI. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
- "European Journal of Taxonomy". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2021.