Zootaxa
Sign in to saveZootaxa 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. Print and online versions are available.
Key facts
- Journal.title
- Zootaxa
- Journal.cover
- Zootaxa header.png
- Journal.editor
- Zhi-Qiang Zhang
- Journal.abbreviation
- Zootaxa
- Journal.publisher
- Magnolia Press
- Journal.country
- New Zealand
- Journal.frequency
- Upon acceptance
- Journal.history
- 2001–present
- Journal.openaccess
- Hybrid
- Journal.impact
- 1.091
- Journal.impact year
- 2020
- Journal.website
- http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/
- Journal.link1
- http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/content.html
- Journal.link1 name
- Online access
- Journal.OCLC
- 49030618
- Journal.ISSN
- 1175-5326
- Journal.eISSN
- 1175-5334
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- Official website
- www.mapress.com/zt
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- Zootaxa
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- Media from Zootaxa
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- 2001-00-00
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- Temporary suspension from JCR
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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. 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. 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. 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.