The open-access, peer-reviewed journal is published mostly in English. The scope of the journal is the morphology, taxonomy, development, life histories, zoogeography, phylogeny and evolution of Crustacea, Chelicerata, Myriapoda and other arthropods, both recent and fossil.
Editorial Board: Dr. V.R. Alexeev (St. Petersburg, Russia), Prof. Dr. R.N. Burukovsky (Kaliningrad, Russia), Dr. S. Crews (San Francisco, USA), Dr. H.-U. Dahms (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Prof. D.M.P. Galassi (L'Aquila, Italy); Dr. S.I. Golovatch (Moscow, Russia), Dr. V.N. Ivanenko (Moscow, Russia); Dr. S. Koponen (Turku, Finland), Dr. D.V. Logunov (Manchester, Great Britain), Dr. I.N. Marin (Moscow, Russia); Dr. Yu.M. Marusik (Magadan, Russia), Dr. R.J. Shiel (Crafers West, Australia), Dr. S.L. Zonstein (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. K.G. Mikhailov (Moscow, Russia).
The journal is issued quarterly since 1992. Indexed by Web of Science and Scopus; reviewed by BIOSIS Previews, Zoological Record, CAB International, and VINITI. The journal's impact factor from Clarivate Analytics for 2017 is 0.951, for 2019 - 0.840; from Scopus is 0.632; the current Scimago Journal Rank for 2017 is 0.32 (Q3), for 2018 - 0.51 (Q2), for 2019 - 0.42 (Q3), for 2022 - 0.47 (Q2), for 2023 - 0.556 (Q2).
Archiving: Russian State Library, Russian Book Chamber, Moscow University Library, Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Science Citation Index (eLibrary).
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Zoological Museum MGU
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