After more than 20 years, Jürgen Heinze has decided to step down as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Zoology. As founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief he played an essential role in the success of the journal and in positioning it as a high quality platform for zoological research. We would like to express our gratitude for all of his dedication to the journal throughout the years. As of January 2025, Angelika Stollewerk has taken over as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal. She is an expert in the evolution of the arthropod nervous system and has extensive experience as Editor. Read the accompanying Editorial here.
Angelika Stollewerk is taking over as Co-Editor-in-Chief from Jürgen Heinze
Photo by J.P. Ethier
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Alternative mating tactics in brown widow spiders: mating with or without male self-sacrifice does not affect the copulatory mechanism
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Cranial morphology in flying squirrels: diet, shape, and size disparity across tropical and temperate biomes
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Time for a change, time to say thank you
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Responses to extreme drought in wintering waterbirds: a multi-species approach
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Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field
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The integrative future of taxonomy
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A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents
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The importance of immune gene variability (MHC) in evolutionary ecology and conservation
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Fog-basking behaviour and water collection efficiency in Namib Desert Darkling beetles
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Aims and scope
Frontiers in Zoology is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal publishing high quality research articles and reviews on all aspects of animal life.
As a biological discipline, zoology has one of the longest histories. Today it occasionally appears as though, due to the rapid expansion of life sciences, zoology has been replaced by more or less independent sub-disciplines amongst which exchange is often sparse. However, the recent advance of molecular methodology into "classical" fields of biology, and the development of theories that can explain phenomena on different levels of organisation, has led to a re-integration of zoological disciplines promoting a broader than usual approach to zoological questions. Zoology has re-emerged as an integrative discipline encompassing the most diverse aspects of animal life, from the level of the gene to the level of the ecosystem.
Frontiers in Zoology is the first open access journal focusing on zoology as a whole. It aims to represent and re-unite the various disciplines that look at animal life from different perspectives and at providing the basis for a comprehensive understanding of zoological phenomena on all levels of analysis. Frontiers in Zoology provides a unique opportunity to publish high quality research and reviews on zoological issues that will be internationally accessible to any reader at no cost.
The journal was initiated and is supported by the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, one of the largest national zoological societies with more than a century-long tradition in promoting high-level zoological research.
Editors-in-Chief
Angelika Stollewerk is Associate Professor Emerita at Queen Mary University of London.
"Zoology is more crucial than ever in biological research. By pioneering new concepts and methods to study organisms both individually and within communities, the field addresses some of society's most urgent challenges, including biodiversity loss and the accelerating impacts of climate change, while also seeking solutions for how we can coexist more harmoniously with nature."
Ulrich Technau is Professor of developmental biology at the University of Vienna, Austria.
"Zoology is addressing some of the most fundamental questions in Biology. It continues to deliver novel insights into the fascinating diversity and biology of animals by taking advantage of a combination of classical concepts and modern methods."
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Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (German Society of Zoology)
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 2.6
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.6
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.079
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.917Speed 2024
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 5
Submission to acceptance (median days): 98Usage 2024
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