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.
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