Zoological Studies increases its
impact factor, offers accessibility to authors and readers
Zoological Studies’ impact
factor increased this year from 0.886 to 1.008. The international
journal focuses on studies in five zoological fields: animal behavior,
comparative physiology, evolution, ecology, and systematics and
biogeography.
ZS is an open access journal
with no page charges for authors. This means that anyone can access
articles for free and authors do not have to pay for their articles to
be published.

“I hear many scientists asking if they can get published in a journal
for free. The answer is often yes, but many of these journals are not
open access,” said Dr. Benny K.K. Chan, editor-in-chief of ZS. “Our
journal being open access and free of page charges is a big selling
point to invite peoples’ submissions.” Dr. Chan became EIC in October,
2016 and hopes the increase in impact factor will attract quality
submissions from researchers who do important work in zoological
fields, but lack the funds for page fees that many journals have.
The journal is independent and supported by the Biodiversity Research
Center at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. It is backed by co-editors-in-chiefs
Drs. Sen-Lin Tang and Daryi Wang, along with 25 associate editors from
6 countries and 13 institutions, who have expertise in the five fields
ZS focuses in. Zoological Studies was founded in 1994 and has been
entirely online since 2013.
“It has been a well-known, nonprofitable, traditionally recognized
international journal.” said co-EIC Sen-Lin Tang, “We welcome all
submissions related to Zoological studies.”
Journal website: http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw
Submit a manuscript here: http://zoolstud.iis.sinica.edu.tw
Follow Zoological Studies on Twitter @ZooStudies.