Primates (journal)

For other uses, see Primate (disambiguation).

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. The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, news and perspectives, and book reviews. It was established in 1957 by Kinji Imanishi.^[2] Although the first volume contained both articles in Japanese^[3][4][5][6] or English,^[7][8] 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).

Primates

Discipline	Primatology
Language	English
Edited by	Masayuki Nakamichi
Publication details
History	1957-present
Publisher	Springer
Frequency	Bimonthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.163 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Primates
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	PRMTBU
ISSN	0032-8332 (print) 1610-7365 (web)
LCCN	sf80001417
OCLC no.	51531954
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.163.^[9]

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