Myrmecological News

Aims & Scope

Myrmecological News is an independent, international non-profit journal devoted to ant research. In a lively mix of research and review articles, all fields of myrmecology are covered. Quality contributions are sought, expected to be of genuine interest to myrmecologists and of enduring relevance to ant research. Suitable manuscripts are reviewed by at least two independent expert referees prior to potential acceptance. Reviewers can stay anonymous to the authors or waive anonymity, and they are asked to actively search for plagiarism. In 2017, primary editorial decisions were made, on average, after 33 and 53 days for all manuscripts and for those subjected to in-depth peer evaluation, respectively. Myrmecological News publishes at least one volume per year. From Volume 28 onward (for details, see Open access ), Myrmecological News ... ... is an open-access journal, that is, contributions are immediately and freely available from the publisher, with article-processing charges paid by the author. Also all earlier content (Volumes 1 - 27) has become freely accessible to everyone. ... publishes all contributions under the Creative Commons (CC) license CC BY 4.0 . ... leaves the copyright entirely with the author . ... is an online-only journal. Taxonomic acts continue being valid under the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature also after the journal's transition to an online-only journal because they meet the requirements of the amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21, and 78: contributions are produced in pdf/A format; stored in the digital archive of Biotaxa; registered with ZooBank, the online version of the Official Register of Zoological Nomenclature; and bear the date of the electronic publication and evidence of ZooBank registration . Taxonomic manuscripts with isolated species descriptions are generally discouraged, especially for genera with large numbers of undescribed species; it lies at the discretion of the editorial team whether such manuscripts are considered. Papers on new distribution records will be considered if the new records are sufficiently important or unexpected from a biogeographical perspective. Such papers could, for example, discuss relevant biological/ecological data and/or biogeographical implications. Species distribution modelling studies (using, e.g., MaxEnt, CLIMEX) that are purely correlative, descriptive, or lacking independent validation are outside the scope of the journal. Modelling studies must integrate empirical data or test explicit biological hypotheses and provide clear conceptual or mechanistic advances in myrmecology. About two thirds of the manuscripts submitted are rejected. In detail, research areas covered by Myrmecological News include: behaviour biogeography and faunistics biological-pest control chemical ecology climate-change biology cognition and learning comparative and functional morphology community ecology conservation biology and bioindication cytogenetics ecology and evolution of (endo)symbioses ecosystem (dis)services foraging strategies fossils fragmentation ecology genomics histology immune research (integrative) taxonomy interspecific hybridisation invasion biology life-history research methodology in community quantification national checklists neurobiology niche ecology orientation and navigation phenology phylogeny and phylogeography population genetics sensory physiology social evolution social parasitism sociogenomics stable isotopes tools for routine identification

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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