Abstract

CRUZ ROSALES, Magdalena. Acta Zoologica Mexicana (n.s.): 30 Years on terrestrial wildlife publishing. Acta Zool. Mex [online]. 2015, vol.31, n.3, pp.446-465. ISSN 2448-8445.

Acta Zoologica Mexicana (nueva serie) is a scientific journal founded in 1984 to publish the results of originals research of terrestrial fauna. This paper presents a descriptive account of editorial production from 1984 to December 2014. In this time 125 issues with 1001 papers have been published: 730 articles, 211 scientific notes and 60 different contributions. According to the first author of articles and scientific notes, 73% come from Mexican institutions and 21% are foreigners. Works with multi-authorship are more frequent (79%). The language most used is the Spanish (81%) after English (17%). Most of the works are from Latin American authors. The insect is the zoological group most studied (50%), after the mammals (19%). According the topics of research the most commonly used is the distribution and / or diversity (35%), biology (24%), taxonomy (14%) and interactions between species (12%). Time evaluation of the work varies from less than one month to 14 months. In the past 20 years it has averaged 30% annual rejection. The evaluation of the work has been carried out by nationals (70%) and foreign specialists (30%). This journal is recognized by several international index also distributed in 35 countries by exchanges with numerous institutions and by annual subscription. It have free access to articles and notes issued through its website and Redalyc, DOAJ, and Scielo.

Keywords : Editorial production; scientific journal; diffusion; Zoology.