Acta Zoologica
| Discipline | Zoology |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Zoon |
| History | 1920–present |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 1.258 (2014) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Acta Zool. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | AZOSAT |
| ISSN | 0001-7272 (print) 1463-6395 (web) |
| LCCN | 58035899 |
| OCLC no. | 1461033 |
| Links | |
)Acta Zoologica is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. It was established in 1920 as Acta Zoologica and obtained its current name in 2002. It is one of the world's leading zoological journals[1] and focuses on animal development, structure, and function, including physiological organization. It primarily publishes original research papers, but occasionally also publishes review articles.
Increasingly, it has concentrated on animal development, with emphasis on the functional, comparative, and phylogenetic aspects.[1] The editor-in-chief is Lennart Olsson (University of Jena).
Abstracting and indexing[]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Academic Search
- Animal Breeding Abstracts
- Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
- Elsevier BIOBASE
- Biological Abstracts
- BIOSIS Previews
- CAB Abstracts
- CAB Health
- CABDirect
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- EMBASE
- InfoTrac
- ProQuest databases
- Science Citation Index
- Scopus
- Tropical Diseases Bulletin
- VINITI Database RAS
- The Zoological Record
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 1.258, ranking it 13th out of 20 journals in the category "Anatomy & Morphology"[2] and 63rd out of 153 journals in the category "Zoology"[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b "Journals" The Center for North American Herpetology
- ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Anatomy & Morphology". 2014 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
- ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Zoology". 2014 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
External links[]
- Zoology journals
- English-language journals
- Publications established in 1920
- Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
- Quarterly journals
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1920 establishments in Sweden