Animal Biology
scientific journal, official journal of the Royal Dutch Zoological Society
Animal Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of zoology. It is the official journal of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Dierkundige Vereniging (Royal Dutch Zoological Society) and published on behalf of the society by Brill Publishers. The journal was established in 1872 as the Archives Néerlandaises de Zoologie and renamed Netherlands Journal of Zoology in 1967. It has been known under its current name since 2004.
Abstracting and indexing
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2010 impact factor is 0.879 and it is indexed in BIOSIS, CABS, Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences, FISHLIT, GeoAbstracts, Science Citation Index, and Scopus.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as scientific journal, official journal of the Royal Dutch Zoological Society. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 31, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4764767. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1872, 1967, 2004 and 2010.
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