''Acta Zoologica'' is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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published by
Wiley-Blackwell
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on behalf of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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and the
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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. It is one of the world's leading
zoological
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journals
and focuses on animal development, structure, and function, including physiological organization. It primarily publishes original research papers, but occasionally also publishes review articles.
Increasingly, it has concentrated on animal development, with emphasis on the functional, comparative, and phylogenetic aspects.
The
editor-in-chief
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is
Lennart Olsson (
University of Jena
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The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...
).
History
The journal was established in 1920 with
Nils Holmgren
Nils Frithiof Holmgren (September 28, 1877 – September 7, 1954) was a Swedish zoologist and comparative anatomist. He was professor of zoology at Stockholm University from 1921 to 1944. He took a special interest in the taxonomy of termites.
...
serving as the first editor.
In 1980, the journal absorbed ''Zoon : a journal of zoology'' which ran 1973–1979 and was a continuation of the publication Zoologiska Bidrag från Uppsala (1911-1972).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 1.261, ranking it 15th out of 21 journals in the category "Anatomy & Morphology"
and 105th out of 174 journals in the category "Zoology"
See also
*
List of zoology journals
This is a list of scientific journals which cover the field of zoology.
A
* '' Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae''
* '' Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae''
* '' Acta Zoologica Bulgarica''
* '' Acta Zoológica Mexicana''
* ' ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1463-6395
Zoology journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1920
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
Quarterly journals
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1920 establishments in Sweden