The European Journal of Taxonomy has become the first scientific journal to launch a GBIF-hosted portal.
Read more about European Journal of Taxonomy launches GBIF-hosted portalAs of May 15th, it will be mandatory for all authors to use the EJT standardized material citations format.
Read more about The EJT standardized material citation format is now mandatoryOn November 27th, 2023, the EJT consortium welcomed a new member: the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv, Israël
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Steven Dessein (Director General of the Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium) has been elected as the new Chair of the EJT Consortium, for a mandate from November 2023 to November 2025.
Read more about New Chair for EJTFrom July 3rd, authors will submit their manuscript on the new submission platform NESTOR (New Editorial System Tool for Research).
Read more about A new submission and peer-review platform for EJTThe EJT editorial team is pleased to announce the opening of a new dedicated section in the journal: “Theory and history of biological systematics and taxonomy”. Contributions on these topics are welcome!
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From the outset, EJT has sought to make descriptive taxonomy research as widely available as possible to promote innovation and scientific advancement. A paper published on the occasion of the journal’s tenth year provides insights on how to achieve the goal of making EJT data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.
Read more about EJT marks its tenth anniversary with a look back on a decade’s worth of dataFabio Cianferoni took the helm of EJT in Summer 2021. He also leads the newly-created Executive Committee.
Read more about A new Editor-in-Chief for EJTAs from November 2021, articles from the European Journal of Taxonomy can be ordered on a print-on-demand basis thanks to a partnership between the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren) and the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris), both founding members of the EJT consortium.
Whether you are an author, reader, or library manager, you can now avail of this service to order copies of articles or volumes.
The EJT editorial team is happy to announce the launch of its new website! On top of an updated design and improved navigation, the journal has also integrated several new features:
• Distributed data sets: the EJT website now provides a link from each article directly to the nomenclatural acts, taxonomic treatments, figures and specimen data available on GBIF and BLR (links active 7 days max. after publication)
• DOIs: all supplementary files published as supporting data for an EJT publication will henceforth be assigned an individual DOI
• Twitter feed: find and share all EJT publications and news on Twitter with @ejtaxonomy
Read more about A new look and new features for the EJT websiteThe editors of the European Journal of Taxonomy are very happy to announce that the Journal Impact factor (Clarivate Analytics) of 2019 is 1.393, as compared to 1.188 in 2018, a very clear increase. In addition, EJT is now represented in three categories of the Web of Science: Zoology (68/168), Entomology (45/101) and now also Plant Science (130/234), thus covering all eukaryotic organisms that EJT publishes on. EJT is firmly positioned in the second quartile (Q2) in Entomology and Zoology and in the third quartile (Q3) regarding Plant sciences, thus showing that taxonomic papers can indeed be well-cited. We thank all authors, referees and readers for their continuous help in advancing our diamond open access journal in descriptive taxonomy. The unrelenting support of the ten institutional members of the EJT consortium is absolutely vital, especially during these difficult times of the corona pandemic. The continued endorsement of EJT by CETAF is gratefully acknowledged.
Read more about EJT 2019 Journal Impact Factor is 1.393 and is now also cited in the category “PLANT SCIENCES”!After several years of dedicated work as EJT topical Entomology editor, Gavin Broad of the London Natural History Museum has asked to be replaced; owing to the fact that he has received several new duties at work. However, he will remain on board as the section editor for Hymenoptera. We thank Gavin for his past and future efforts, and wish him all the best in his new life!
The new EJT topical Entomology editor is Nesrine Akkari from the Natural History Museum of Vienna (Austria). We heartily welcome Nesrine to the team of EJT editors and desk editors and are much looking forward to working with her. Below is a short CV. Great having you on board Nesrine!
Read more about Nesrine Akkari is the new EJT topical entomology editorA new species of dung beetle from South America, Sylvicanthon attenboroughi sp. nov., has just been published in EJT 467. The authors Mario CUPELLO and Fernando Z. VAZ-DE-MELLO decided to honour the great British naturalist and broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough "In recognition of his profoundly influential work on the public understanding of natural history and evolutionary biology, which, for more than six decades, has been inspiring young people of successive generations."
Read more about EJT publishes a new beetle species named after Sir David AttenboroughThis week, EJT publishes two papers by Ruttapon Srisonchai and co-workers on new genera and species of dragon millipedes from Thailand that, on top of the impressive scientific pictures (photographs and line drawings), each include a watercolour painting by Thai artist Photchana Kriatpraprai.
To ensure that non-millipede workers can also observe the beauty of these paintings and of the dragon millipedes themselves, we exceptionally present them here on our homepage for all to enjoy.
Read more about An artful revision of dragon millipedes
EJT vol 445 contains installment 7 of Henrik Enghoff’s monographic work “A mountain of millipedes”, which describes the (mostly endemic) millipede fauna of the Udzungwa Mountains in East Africa. In this 7th part, the author describes 22 new species of the genus Eviulisoma Silvestri, 1910 from the Eastern Arc Mountains (Tanzania).
One of these species is rather special to our journal, as Enghoff has dedicated it to EJT itself: Eviulisoma ejti sp. nov.!!
Read more about New species of millipede named after EJT and CETAFThe editorial team of the European Journal of Taxonomy is very happy to welcome a new member : Gavin Broad. Gavin is Senior Curator and Acting Head of the Insects Division at the Natural History Museum, London. Gavin Broad is the new Topical Editor of Entomology and is handling the review process of the Entomology submissions since January 2016.
Read more about Gavin Broad (NHM, London) is the new EJT Entomology EditorThe editorial team is pleased to announce that the European Journal of Taxonomy is now endorsed by the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF), and can be officially termed a CETAF endorsed journal.
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Phryganistria tamdaoensis, one of the giant stick insects described by Joachim Bresseel and Jérôme Constant in no. 104 of the European Journal of Taxonomy, is in the Top 10 New Species for 2015 of College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry (ESF). The committee of ESF's International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE) selected this impressive species, 23 cm for the longest specimen, discovered in Tam Dao National Park in Vietnam. Living specimens can be observed in the vivarium of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.
Bresseel J. & Constant J. 2014. Notes on the Giant Stick Insects from Vietnam and China with three new taxa including the second longest Insect known to date (Phasmatodea, Phasmatidae, Clitumninae, Pharnaciini). European Journal of Taxonomy 104 : 1–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2014.104 Read more about GIANT STICK INSECT, DESCRIBED IN EJT, IN ESF TOP 10 NEW SPECIES FOR 2015 
Impact factor
1.1
EJT statistics
(range: 1 October – 31 December 2024)
Average time
between submission and acceptance: 22 weeks
between acceptance and publication: 18 weeks
between submission and publication: 40 weeks
Scopus CiteScore 2023
2.3
Taxa published in EJT
are recorded in:
Plazi TreatmentBank
GBIF
ZooBank
International Plant names Index (IPNI)
Zoological Record
EJT is indexed in:
Web of Science
DOAJ
Google Scholar
Virtual Library of Biology (Vifabio)
Science Citation Index Expanded (Entomology | Zoology | Plant Sciences)
Journal Citation Reports (Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences|Biological Abstracts|BIOSIS Previews |Essential Science Indicators |Zoological Record)
Scimago Journal & Country Rank
Special EJT publication:
DNA Library of Life
