Acta Zoologica
Academic journal
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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 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.
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| Discipline | Zoology |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Lennart Olsson |
| Publication details | |
Former name | Zoon |
| History | 1920–present |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Hybrid | |
| 1.261 (2020) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Acta Zool. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | AZOSAT |
| ISSN | 0001-7272 (print) 1463-6395 (web) |
| LCCN | 58035899 |
| OCLC no. | 1461033 |
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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).
History
The journal was established in 1920 with Nils Holmgren serving as the first editor.[2]
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).[3][4]
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Academic Search
- Animal Breeding Abstracts
- Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
- Elsevier BIOBASE
- Biological Abstracts
- BIOSIS Previews
- CAB Abstracts
- CAB Health
- CABDirect
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- Animal Behavior Abstracts
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- EMBASE
- Index Veterinarius
- InfoTrac
- ProQuest databases
- Science Citation Index
- Scopus
- Tropical Diseases Bulletin
- Veterinary Bulletin
- VINITI Database RAS
- The Zoological Record
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.261, ranking it 15th out of 21 journals in the category "Anatomy & Morphology"[5] and 105th out of 174 journals in the category "Zoology"[6]