Neha Patil (Editor)

Cladistics (journal)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Discipline
  
Cladistics

Edited by
  
James M. Carpenter

Publication history
  
1985-present

Language
  
English

Publisher
  
Wiley-Blackwell

Frequency
  
Bimonthly

Cladistics (journal)

Cladistics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research in cladistics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Willi Hennig Society. Cladistics publishes papers relevant to evolution, systematics, and integrative biology. Papers of both a conceptual or philosophical nature, discussions of methodology, empirical studies on taxonomic groups from animals to bacteria, and applications of systematics in disciplines such as genomics and paleontology are accepted. Five types of paper appear in the journal: reviews, regular papers, forum papers, letters to the editor, and book reviews. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014impact factor of 6.217, ranking it 6th out of 46 journals in the category "Evolutionary Biology". Its editor-in-chief is Dennis Wm. Stevenson.

References

Cladistics (journal) Wikipedia