We publish high quality peer-reviewed articles on animal behavior, comparative physiology, evolution, ecology, and systematics and biogeography on animals taxa from all parts of the world.

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Zoological Studies is an OPEN ACCESS international journal and FREE OF PAGE CHARGES from authors.

Edited by: Benny K. K. Chan (Editor in Chief), Sheng-Feng Shen, Chih-Ming Hung, Hui-Yu Wang, Jen-Pan Huang, Tzu-Hao Lin, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Yi-Jyun Luo (Managing editor)



Impact Factor: 1.5
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Ranking: 2023: 58/180 (Zoology)

ISSN (E): 1810-522X
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Zoological Studies Editorial Team
The editors and managing editors are supported by professors/ research fellows at Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

The editors and co-editors in chief are supported by 33 Associate Editors including Drs. Benny Kwok Kan Chan, Chaolun Allen Chen, Chi-Chien Kuo, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Chih-Ming Hung, Chung-Ping Lin, Claudia Castellani, Daniel Stec, David Miller, Felipe Polivanov Ottoni, Gray A. Williams, Hin-Kiu Mok, Hiroomi Miyamot, Hsi-Te Shih, Hui-Yu Wang, I-Min Tso, James D. Reimer, Jen-Pan Huang, Jens Thorvald Høeg, Jian-Nan Liu, John Wang, Ka Hou Chu, Pung-Pung Hwang, Ryuji Machida, Sen-Lin Tang, Sheng-Feng Shen, Shen-Horn Yen, Shou-Hsien Li, Teng-Chiu Lin, Tzu-Hao Lin, Tzu-Ruei Yang, Y. Miles Zhang, Yasuyuki Hashiguchi, Yeong-Choy Kam, Yi-Jyun Luo.


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Message from the Editor in Chief
We take up a responsibility for the academic society

    Nowadays, journals often require expensive page charges/open-access fees to publish scientific research articles. Is it possible there are quality assured, peer-reviewed and open-access SCI scientific journals, in which colleagues can publish their research without these hefty fees? We, the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, have taken up this responsibility. We publish a journal entitled Zoological Studies, to provide a free SCI open-access publication platform for colleagues to share their research achievements.
    Publishing articles free of page charges does not mean that articles in Zoological Studies lack quality. All accepted articles have passed a formal review system. Impact factors are often used to judge the quality of a journal. However, article citations can be also affected by the  marketing methods used in journals published by commercial publishers. We expect to maintain a respectable impact factor for Zoological Studies. All articles are 1) formally assigned a DOI number and are open-access on the web, 2) listed and housed in PubMed database and 3) promoted in our twitter and facebook accounts. We are not under the umbrella of any commercial publisher. All the editors and reviewers are volunteers. We hope you can support us by submitting your quality research to Zoological Studies, and subsequently upload your published articles in Research Gate to enhance citations as well.

Prof. Benny K.K. Chan
 
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Vol. 64, 2025