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Myrmecological News

scientific journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ6948334 ↗
Source-derived summary

Myrmecological News (previous name: Myrmecologische Nachrichten) is an independent, international, non-profit, peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal devoted to all aspects of ant research. In a mix of research and review articles, all fields of myrmecology are covered.

It was relaunched in 2004.

Publisher

The Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics (ÖGEF) is a scientific non-profit organisation promoting entomofaunistic research, with a geographic emphasis on Austria and the Palaearctic. Other publications: Beiträge zur Entomofaunistik.

Abstracting and indexing

Myrmecological News is indexed and abstracted in the Web of Science (Impact Factor 2011: 2.644, Rank 5/85 in category Entomology), The Zoological Record, Scopus, and Google Scholar.

Editorial summary

“Myrmecological News” enters the record as scientific journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Myrmecological, News and scientific can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Myrmecological, News and scientific.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Myrmecological News” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Myrmecological, News and scientific provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6948334. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2011.

Critical limits

Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Myrmecological News”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Myrmecological News primary sources, Myrmecological News archive and Myrmecological research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Myrmecological News” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.