Journals

The Natural History 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 aims to champion the importance of collections-based systematics to understand the diversity of past life. The journal publishes papers that present novel and impactful results in systematics, which serve 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 illustration with a large-page format.
• A focus on high-quality systematics and its role in understanding major evolutionary patterns.
• An international editorial team covering all areas of palaeontology.
  
• Published articles are rigorously refereed to the highest scholarly standards.
• Submissions are online via the Submission Portal.

Editorial staff

Editors-in-chief

Dr Imran Rahman - Natural History Museum, UK

Professor Susannah Maidment - Natural History Museum, UK

Editorial Assistant

Dr Esme Purdie - Natural History Museum, UK

Associate Editors

Guillaume Billet - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France

Martin Brazeau - Imperial College London, UK

Kimberley Chapelle - Stony Brook University, USA

Katie Collins - Natural History Museum, UK

Laura Cotton - Natural History Museum of Denmark, Denmark

Greg Edgecombe - Natural History Museum, UK

Alistair Evans - Monash University, Australia

Serjoscha Evers - Universität Freiburg, Switzerland

Tim Ewin - Natural History Museum, UK

Martin Ezcurra - CONICET, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Argentina

Richard Howard - Natural History Museum, UK

Ken Johnson - Natural History Museum, UK

Paul Kenrick - Natural History Museum, UK

Jordan Mallon - Canadian Museum of Nature, Canada

Erin Maxwell - Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Germany

Giles Miller - Natural History Museum, UK

Jennifer Olori - SUNY Oswego, USA

Spyridoula Pappa - Natural History Museum, UK

Vincent Perrichot - University of Rennes, France

Stephan Spiekman - Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, Germany

Jérémy Tissier - American Museum of Natural History, USA

Zhu You-an - Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeanthropology, China

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 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

• A focus on whole-organism biology.
• An 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.

Editorial staff

Editors-in-Chief

Dr Pete Olson - Natural History Museum, UK

Dr Tom White - Natural History Museum, UK

Editorial Assistant

Dr Esme Purdie - Natural History Museum, UK

Associate Editors

Gema Alama-Bermejo - University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria

Christoph Bleidorn - Georg-August-Universität,Göttingen, Germany

Andrew V. Z. Brower - USDA Plant Health Programs, Riverdale, MD USA

Nadia Bystriakova - Natural History Museum, UK

Mark Carine - Natural History Museum, UK

Rupert A. Collins - Natural History Museum, UK

Dimitar Dimitrov - University Museum of Bergen, Norway

Adrian Glover - Natural History Museum, UK

Paul Z. Goldstein - USDA Smithsonian Institution, USA

David Gower - Natural History Museum, UK

Thaís Barreto Guedes - Sao Paulo University, Brazil

Polly Hayes - University of Westminster, UK

Jesús S. Hernández-Orts - Natural History Museum, UK

Aelys Humphreys - Stockholm University, Sweden

Barna Páll-Gergely - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Ana Riesgo - National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spain

Elliot Shubert - University of Westminster, UK

Xikun Song - Xiamen University, China

Susan Tsang - American Museum of Natural History, USA

Maria S. Vorontsova - Royal Botanic Garden Kew, UK

Andrea Waeschenbach - Natural History Museum, UK

David Williams - Natural History Museum, UK