Palaeontology (journal)
Information about Palaeontology (journal)
| Palaeontology | |
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| Discipline | Paleontology |
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing (UK) |
| Publication history | 1957 - present |
| Impact factor on JCR (year) | 1.091 (2006) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Open access | Back issues |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0031-0239 |
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| *Journal homepage | |
Palaeontology is one of the two journals of the Palaeontological Association. It has been published yearly since 1957, and is currently issued in 6 parts per year. It is published on behalf of the Association by Blackwell Publishing. The chief editor is David Batten.
Palaeontology publishes articles on a range of palaeontological topics, including taphonomy, systematics and biostratigraphy. Its impact factor for 2006 was 1.091.
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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos
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Writing system: Latin (English variant)
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
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Writing system: Latin (English variant)
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng
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Blackwell Publishing was formed in 2001 from two Oxford-based academic publishing companies, Blackwell Science and Blackwell Publishers, which had their origins in the nineteenth century Blackwell's family bookshop and publishing business.
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual publication by the Institute of Scientific Information, a division of Thomson Scientific. It provides information about academic journals in the sciences and social sciences.
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Open access (OA) is free, immediate, permanent, full-text, online access, for any user, web-wide, to digital scientific and scholarly material[1], primarily research articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
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An ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic periodical publication. The ISSN system was adopted as international standard ISO 3297 in 1975. The TC 46/SC 9 is responsible for the standard.
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The Palaeontological Association ("PalAss" for short) is a charitable organisation based in the U.K. founded in 1957 for the promotion of the study of palaeontology. It publishes two main journals, Palaeontology and Special Papers in Palaeontology.
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Blackwell Publishing was formed in 2001 from two Oxford-based academic publishing companies, Blackwell Science and Blackwell Publishers, which had their origins in the nineteenth century Blackwell's family bookshop and publishing business.
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Taphonomy is the study of a decaying organism over time. The term taphonomy, (from the Greek taphos meaning burial, and nomos meaning law), was introduced to paleontology in 1940 by Russian scientist, Ivan Efremov, to describe the study of the transition of
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Biological systematics is the study of the diversity of life on the planet Earth, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: phylogenic trees, phylogenies).
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Biostratigraphy is the science of dating rocks by using the fossils contained within them. Usually the aim is correlation. That is, demonstrating that a particular horizon in one geological section represents the same period of time as another horizon at some other section.
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