Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area. Phytogeography is the branch of biogeography that studies the distribution of plants. Zoogeography is the branch that studies distribution of animals. Mycogeography is the branch that studies distribution of fungi, such as mushrooms.
A citation index is a kind of bibliographic index, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. A form of citation index is first found in 12th-century Hebrew religious literature. Legal citation indexes are found in the 18th century and were made popular by citators such as Shepard's Citations (1873). In 1961, Eugene Garfield's Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) introduced the first citation index for papers published in academic journals, first the Science Citation Index (SCI), and later the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). American Chemical Society converted its printed Chemical Abstract Service into internet-accessible SciFinder in 2008. The first automated citation indexing was done by CiteSeer in 1997 and was patented. Other sources for such data include Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Elsevier's Scopus, and the National Institutes of Health's iCite.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA). It was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals making all their content available for free, without delay or user-registration requirement, and meeting high quality standards, notably by exercising peer review or editorial quality control. DOAJ defines those as open access journals where an open license is used so that any user is allowed immediate free access to the works published in the journal and is permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of [the] articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose. The mission of DOAJ is to "increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language."
Drug Target Insights is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal focusing on drug treatment targets and clinical therapeutics. The journal was founded in 2006 by Monica Milani and is currently edited by Giulio Zuanetti. It was originally published by Libertas Academica, but SAGE Publications became the publisher in September 2016. In 2020, the journal was transferred to AboutScience Srl.
Frontiers Media SA is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals currently active in science, technology, and medicine. It was founded in 2007 by Kamila and Henry Markram, and has since expanded to other academic fields. Frontiers is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with other offices in London, Madrid, Seattle and Brussels. In 2022, Frontiers employed more than 1,400 people, across 14 countries. All Frontiers journals are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
The Journal of Political Ecology is an annual open access peer-reviewed academic journal covering political ecology. It was established in 1994 as one of the first open access journals in the social sciences, by James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park, to experiment with online formats and to showcase new work in the emerging field of political ecology. The current editors-in-chief are Simon P.J. Batterbury and Casey Walsh. There is an international editorial board.
Check List is a peer-reviewed, open access, on-line scientific journal that publishes Annotated Lists of Species (ALS), Notes on Geographic Distribution (NGD), Distribution Summary (DS), Book Reviews (BR) and Forum Papers (FP). The journal was established in 2005 to serve as a mean of publishing inventories that are essential for studies on biogeography and provide a baseline for conservation studies. Since 2017 it has been published by Pensoft Publishers.
The Journal of Oleo Science is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the various agricultural, biological, chemical, health, medical, nutritional, and physical properties of fats and oils. It is published by the Japan Oil Chemists' Society and the editor-in-chief is Osamu Shibata.
The Canadian Journal of Bioethics is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal hosted by the Bioethics Program at the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal. It covers all aspects of bioethics in French or English. The founding and current editor-in-chief is Bryn Williams-Jones. The journal was established in 2012 as BioéthiqueOnline, obtaining its current title in 2018.
Open Quaternary is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing contributions that consider the changing environment of the Quaternary, and the development of humanity. It published with Ubiquity Press. It has four editors in chief: Victoria Herridge, Matthew Law, Hanneke Meijer, and Suzanne Pilaar Birch.
Biogeographia: The Journal of Integrative Biogeography is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing original research and reviews in biogeography since 1970. It is published on behalf of the Italian Biogeography Society, using the eScholarship Publishing platform. The current editor-in-chief is Diego Fontaneto.
Architectural Histories is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing historically grounded research into all aspects of architecture and the built environment, since 2013. It is published on behalf of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), with Ubiquity Press. The current editor-in-chief is Petra Brouwer.
Tropicultura is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing original articles, research and summary notes, overviews of books and essays, announcements and reports on films / audio-visual resources concerning all fields linked to rural development, as well as sustainable management of the environment in overseas countries. It is published on the Portail de Publication de Périodiques Scientifiques (PoPuPS) platform operated by the University of Liège Library. The current editor-in-chief is J. Bogaert.
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing research articles and short communications in all branches of geosciences. It the official journal of the Geological Society of Finland. The current editor-in-chief is Dr. Niina Kuosmanen. From 1929 to 1967, it was known as Comptes Rendus de la Société Géologique de Finlande before changing to the current name from Volume 40 onwards to the present day.
Estudios Geológicos is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing research articles and reviews in Earth Sciences. It is a journal operated by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), with the Geosciences Institute at the Complutense University of Madrid. The current executive editor is Jose María Cebriá Gómez.
Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing original articles advancing the state of theoretical knowledge in the transdisciplinary area of cliodynamics. It is an initiative of The Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside. The current editor-in-chief is Peter Turchin.
Journal of Transnational American Studies is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing original research in the field of American studies. It is published from the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The current editor-in-chief is Nina Morgan. The Library of Congress has selected the journal for inclusion in its permanent archive of electronic publications.
Geochemical Perspectives Letters is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing original research in geochemistry. It is published by the European Association for Geochemistry.
Geologica Carpathica is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing original research on the geology of the Carpathian-Balkanian and adjacent regions. It is an official journal of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association, and is co-published with the support of the Earth Science Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Polish Geological Institute, and the Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Studia Quaternaria is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing research articles on quaternary science. It is a journal published by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). The current editor-in-chief is Leszek Marks. It changed name from Quaternary Studies in Poland to the current title in the year 2000.
