European Journal of Taxonomy

The European Journal of Taxonomy is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal for descriptive taxonomy of living and fossil eukaryotes, covering subjects in zoology, botany, and palaeontology. It is supported by the EJT Consortium, a group of European natural history institutes, which fully funds the publication. Therefore, the journal is free for both authors and readers (diamond open access).^[1]

European Journal of Taxonomy

Discipline	Taxonomy
Language	English
Edited by	Fabio Cianferoni
Publication details
History	2011–present
Publisher	EJT Consortium
Frequency	Continuous
Open access	Yes
License	CC BY 4.0
Impact factor	1.398 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Eur. J. Taxon.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	2118-9773
OCLC no.	758480175
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

History

The journal was initiated by a task force of people from the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy network. The first article was published on 9 September 2011. In October 2015, the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities endorsed the journal.^[1]

Several older journals have been merged into the European Journal of Taxonomy:^[1]

• Journal of Afrotropical Zoology
• Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie
• Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie
• Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre
• Steenstrupia^[2]
• Zoologische Mededelingen

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts^[3]
• BIOSIS Previews^[3]
• CAB Abstracts^[4]
• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences^[3]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[3]
• The Zoological Record^[3]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.372.^[5]