''Myrmecological News'' (previous name: Myrmecologische Nachrichten) is an independent, international, non-profit,
peer-reviewed
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,
open-access scientific journal
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devoted to all aspects of
ant
Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cre ...
research. In a mix of research and review articles, all fields of
myrmecology are covered.
It was relaunched in 2004.
Publisher
The Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics (ÖGEF) is a scientific non-profit organisation promoting entomofaunistic research, with a geographic emphasis on
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
and the Palaearctic. Other publications: Beiträge zur Entomofaunistik.
Abstracting and indexing
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Impact Factor 2011: 2.644, Rank 5/85 in category Entomology),
,
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, and
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.
References
External links
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Entomology journals and magazines
Myrmecology
Irregular journals