Acta Zoologica

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.

For other uses, see Acta Zoologica (disambiguation).
Acta Zoologica
DisciplineZoology
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
Former name(s)
Zoon
History1920–present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
1.258 (2014)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Acta Zool.
Indexing
CODENAZOSAT
ISSN0001-7272 (print)
1463-6395 (web)
LCCN58035899
OCLC no.1461033
Links

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:

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
  1. "Journals" The Center for North American Herpetology
  2. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Anatomy & Morphology". 2014 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
  3. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Zoology". 2014 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
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