Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Copeia Edited by Christopher Beachy | Language English Publication history 1913–present | |
Discipline Ichthyology and Herpetology Publisher American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (United States) | ||
Copeia is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in ichthyology and herpetology that was named after Edward Drinker Cope, a prominent American researcher in these fields. It is the official journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 0.904, ranking it 82nd out of 152 journals in the category "Zoology".
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History
On December 27, 1913, John Treadwell Nichols published the first issue of Copeia. This issue consisted of a single piece of paper folded to form four pages of information with five articles. The cover of the pamphlet bore the inscription: "Published by the contributors to advance the science of coldblooded vertebrates."
Issues
1913 No. 1