Zootaxa
Discipline
LanguageEnglish
Edited byZhi-Qiang Zhang
Publication details
History2001–present
Publisher
Magnolia Press (New Zealand)
FrequencyUpon acceptance
Hybrid
1.091 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Zootaxa
Indexing
ISSN1175-5326 (print)
1175-5334 (web)
OCLC no.49030618
Links

Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists. It is published by Magnolia Press (Auckland, New Zealand). The journal was established by Zhi-Qiang Zhang in 2001 and new issues are published multiple times a week. From 2001 to 2020, more than 60,000 new species have been described in the journal accounting for around 25% of all new taxa indexed in The Zoological Record in the last few years.[1] Print and online versions are available.

Temporary suspension from JCR

The journal exhibited high levels of self-citation and its journal impact factor of 2019 was suspended from Journal Citation Reports in 2020, a sanction which hit 34 journals in total.[2] Biologist Ross Mounce noted that high levels of self-citation may be inevitable for a journal which publishes a large share of new species classification.[3] Later that year this decision was reversed and it was admitted that levels of self-citation are appropriate considering the large proportion of papers from its field published by Zootaxa.[4]

See also

  • ZooKeys, a fully open access zoological journal
  • Phytotaxa, a botanical journal also published by Magnolia Press

References

  1. ↑ Contributions of Zootaxa to biodiversity discovery: an overview of the first twenty years
  2. ↑ Oransky, Ivan (2020-06-29). "Major indexing service sounds alarm on self-citations by nearly 50 journals". Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  3. ↑ Mounce, Ross (2020-07-03). "Suppression as a form of liberation?".
  4. ↑ Major indexing service reverses decision to suppress two journals from closely followed metric


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