Primates (journal)
Academic journal
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Primates is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of primatology, and an official journal of the Japan Monkey Center at Kyoto University.[1]: 584 It publishes original papers that cover all aspects of the study of primates. It was the first scientific journal focused exclusively on primates and remains the oldest, longest-running international primatology journal in the world.[2]
The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, news and perspectives, and book reviews. It was established in 1957 by Kinji Imanishi.[3] Although the first volume contained both articles in Japanese[4][5][6][7] or English,[8][9] subsequent volumes were published in English, thanks to a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.[1]: 593 It is now published by Springer and the current editor-in-chief is Masayuki Nakamichi (Osaka University).
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.163.[10]
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed by
- Academic OneFile
- AGRICOLA
- Anthropological Literature
- Biological Abstracts
- BIOSIS
- CAB Abstracts
- CAB International
- ProQuest
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- EMBASE
- GEOBASE
- GeoRef
- Global Health
- PsycINFO
- PubMed/MEDLINE
- Science Citation Index
- Scopus
- The Zoological Record