Zootaxa is a Peer review 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 Taxon indexed in The Zoological Record in the last few years.[ Contributions of Zootaxa to biodiversity discovery: an overview of the first twenty 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.
[ Major indexing service reverses decision to suppress two journals from closely followed metric]
See also
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Phytotaxa, a botanical journal also published by Magnolia Press
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ZooKeys, a fully open access zoological journal
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