Journals

The Museum produces two international journals.

The Journal of Systematic Palaeontology is published online by Taylor & Francis.

Systematics and Biodiversity is published online by Taylor & Francis.

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

The Journal of Systematic Palaeontology is an international, peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Natural History Museum.

The journal has a reputation as one of the leading palaeontological journals internationally and is ranked in Q1 for the palaeontology subject category. It is online-only and subscription-based, with a hybrid open access option.

The Journal of Systematic Palaeontology seeks to champion the importance of collections-based systematics for understanding the diversity of past life. The journal publishes papers that present novel and impactful results in systematics, and which use these results as a basis for rigorous analyses of functional morphology, evolution, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography or biostratigraphy.

Papers cover extinct taxa from across the tree of life, from dinosaurs to microfossils.

Key features

• emphasis is on high quality of illustration with large-page format
• focus on high quality systematics and its role in understanding major evolutionary patterns
• international editorial team (covering all areas of palaeontology)
  
• published articles are rigorously refereed to the highest scholarly standards
• submissions are online via Submission Portal

Editors-in-chief

Imran Rahman and Zerina Johanson

Editorial Assistant

Cecilia Derrick

Associate Editors

Victoria Arbour, Guillaume Billet, Martin Brazeau, Kimberley Chapelle, Katie Collins, Laura Cotton, Greg Edgecombe, Alistair Evans, Serjoscha Evers, Tim Ewin, Ken Johnson, Paul Kenrick, Erin Maxwell, Giles Miller, Jennifer Olori, Spyridoula Pappa, Vincent Perrichot, Stephan Spiekman, Jérémy Tissier.

Systematics and Biodiversity

Systematics and Biodiversity is a bi-monthly, international, peer-reviewed life science journal devoted to whole-organism biology, especially systematics, biodiversity and conservation.

The criterion for publication is scientific merit. The journal records the diversity of organisms through taxonomic papers, which have broad biological and contextual significance, using descriptive and analytical approaches.

The underlying basis of biodiversity is addressed through studies of systematic relationships and of growth, form, adaptation and function, and through analysis of biodiversity patterns in time and space, especially with respect to environmental and human factors.

Coverage also includes relevant theory and methodology, developments in taxonomy and classification and conservation biology.

Key features

• focus on whole-organism biology
• international editorial team, covering systematics, biodiversity and conservation
• published articles are rigorously refereed by at least two reviewers to the highest scholarly standards
• submissions are online via Manuscript Central

Proposals

If you have an idea for a new book, and would like us to consider publishing it, please complete our proposal form and email it to us.