europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu

What It Is

European Journal of Taxonomy (EJT) is a peer-reviewed, fully electronic international open-access journal focused on descriptive taxonomy, covering eukaryote-related fields such as zoology, botany, mycology, and paleontology. It is published and funded by a consortium of European natural history institutions, with its office contact point located at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN) in Paris, France.

Core Features

EJT’s core value lies in providing a formal publication venue for descriptions of new taxa, taxonomic revisions, species nomenclature, and systematic taxonomy research. The journal emphasizes that papers must comply with the relevant nomenclatural codes, and it records or links taxonomic data with databases such as Plazi TreatmentBank, GBIF, ZooBank, IPNI, and Zoological Record. The website offers issue browsing, full-text PDF/PDF-A files, a submission portal, author guidelines, editorial policies, a privacy statement, and contact information. The journal is included or indexed in systems such as Web of Science, DOAJ, Google Scholar, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scimago, and uses LOCKSS for long-term archiving.

Pricing

This is a typical Diamond Open Access model: readers can access the journal for free, and authors do not need to pay APCs or page charges. The costs of copyediting, typesetting, and online publication are covered by the consortium of European natural history institutions, making it very friendly to taxonomy researchers with limited funding.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are a clear disciplinary focus, strong institutional backing, full open access, and close integration with biodiversity data infrastructure, which facilitates data reuse and long-term citation. The editorial team covers a wide range of taxonomic groups and has a high level of expertise. The drawbacks are that its use cases are highly specialized, mainly serving taxonomy; the disclosed average time from submission to acceptance is about 27 weeks, and from submission to publication about 41 weeks, which is not short; its 2025 impact factor is 1.3 and CiteScore is 2.6, placing it at the level of a specialist journal rather than a high-impact multidisciplinary journal.

Who It’s For

It is suitable for researchers and institutions engaged in species descriptions, taxonomic revisions, natural history collection studies, biodiversity inventories, and animal, plant, fungal, or paleontological taxonomy. If the research focus is ecological mechanisms, molecular biology, or broad theoretical questions, a more closely matched journal may be needed.

Access in China

Judging from the nature of the site and its public pages, it can generally be accessed directly from mainland China; however, PDF downloads, the NESTOR submission system, or access to third-party databases may be affected by international network conditions.