Invertebrate Zoology

ISSN 1812-9250 (paper version), 1814-0815 (online version)

Established in 2004 the international open access scientific peer-reviewed journal INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY publishes original papers, reviews and brief communications on morphology, anatomy, embryology, taxonomy, phylogeny, evolution, paleontology and ecology of any group of invertebrates from protistans to lower chordates.

Invertebrate Zoology is issued quarterly as both printed and on-line versions 

Language for the submissions: English, Russian

Editor-in-chief: Vladimir V. Malakhov

Secretary: Elena N. Temereva

Address for scientific correspondence temereva@mail.ru  

The journal is issued in two numbers since 2004 and quarterly since 2018. Indexed by Scopus (since 2015), RSCI and Zoological Record. The journal's impact factor from Scopus is 0.684; the current Scimago Journal Rank for 2017 is 0.24 (Q3), for 2019 - 0.39 (Q2), for 2020 - 0.28 (Q3); Scopus percentile is 42.

Archiving: Russian State Library, Russian Book Chamber, Moscow University Library, Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, VINITI.

Publishing model

Invertebrate Zoology is a fully Open Access journal. Publication is free of charge except for color pages in printed version.  

Copyright of all papers belongs to Invertebrate Zoology.

Printed and on-line versions are issued four times a year.

Peer review

All manuscripts are subject to peer review by at least two anonymous referees. The process of revision is up to 30 days. Prior to being sent out for review all submitted papers are assessed by the Editor-in-chief for compliance with the scope of the journal.

Ethics and Publication Malpractice

Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.

The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to: patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

Ownership and management: 

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