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Homepage funded by Beate Lattanzi-Schödl & Alexander Schödl, in honour of their brother, Stefan Schödl, 1957-2005, Editor of Myrmecological News, 1999-2005
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Edited by: Birgit Schlick-Steiner, Herbert Zettel, Florian Steiner
Print ISSN: 1994-4136
Online ISSN: 1997-3500
Abbreviation: Myrmecol. News
Frequency: at least once a year
Language: English, German
Current issue: Volume 13 (2010)
Previous name: Myrmecologische Nachrichten
Indexed by: Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; Google Scholar; Science Citation Index Expanded; Scopus; Zoological Record
Myrmecological News is an independent, international, peer reviewed, non-profit journal. It offers rapid means of publication on all fields of ant research, in a lively mix of research and review articles. Myrmecol. News is printed at least once a year. In the online version articles are published as soon as they are ready.
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>>> The five most viewed contributions of August 2010 are: [as of 1 September 2010]
1. Social parasitism among ants: a review (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Buschinger, A. Check it out
2. The copulation biology of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Baer, B. Check it out
3. Worldwide spread of the ruby ant, Myrmica rubra (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Wetterer, J.K. & Radchenko, A.G. Check it out
4. The diversity and ecology of ant gardens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae; Spermatophyta: Angiospermae)
Orivel, J. & Leroy, C. Check it out
5. Biodiversity, species interactions, and functional roles of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in fragmented landscapes: a review
Crist, T.O. Check it out
>>> Two new contributions published Online Earlier: [as of 26 August 2010]
The diversity and ecology of ant gardens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae; Spermatophyta: Angiospermae)
Orivel, J. & Leroy, C. Check it out
Worldwide spread of the ruby ant, Myrmica rubra (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Wetterer, J.K. & Radchenko, A.G. Check it out
>>> First contribution in "Forum" section: [as of 22 July 2010]
“Forum” provides a venue for communicating constructive points of view and comments, fair criticism, relevant meeting reviews and abstracts of meeting contributions, and reports or announcements of far-reaching importance to the myrmecological community, including logistical aspects.
In the first Forum contribution published, Stefanie Kautz and Corrie Moreau present a meeting review of the 2009 Global Ant Project synthesis meeting.
>>> Volume 13 published in print [as of 26 April 2010]
Click here for information on how to order the print version of Volume 13
Click here for information on how to order the online version of Myrmecol. News
>>> The ten most viewed contributions of the year 2009 are: [as of 1 January 2010]
1. Biodiversity, species interactions, and functional roles of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in fragmented landscapes: a review
Crist, T.O. Check it out
2. Advances in insect preparation: bleaching, clearing and relaxing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Stüben, M. & Linsenmair, K.E. Check it out
3. Hölldobler, B. & Wilson, E.O. 2008: The Superorganism: the beauty, elegance and strangeness of insect societies: - W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 576 pp.
Seal, J.N. Check it out
4. Social parasitism among ants: a review (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Buschinger, A. Check it out
5. The demise of the standard ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Heinze, J. Check it out
6. First record of the slave-maker ant Harpagoxenus sublaevis (Nylander, 1849) from Bulgaria (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Antonova, V. Check it out
7. A taxonomic revision of the Formica rufibarbis Fabricius, 1793 group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Seifert, B. & Schultz, R. Check it out
8. Leptothorax athabasca sp.n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Alberta, Canada, an ant with an apparently restricted range
Buschinger, A. & Schulz, A. Check it out
9. Cryptic species in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) revisited: we need a change in the alpha-taxonomic approach
Seifert, B. Check it out
10. Individual and collective cognition in ants and other insects (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Dornhaus, A. & Franks, N.R. Check it out
>>> Menu item "Citations" discontinued [as of 1 January 2010]
Following inclusion of Myrmecological News in SCOPUS and Web of Science, the menu item "Citations" has now been discontinued - please use SCOPUS and/or Web of Science for following up citations of papers published in Myrmecological News.
>>> Impact factor due June 2012 [as of 13 November 2009]
The first Impact Factor for Myrmecological News will be due June 2012. If the aims of Myrmecological News also are your aims, please increase the impact of Myrmecological News in this critical phase by citing its papers in your research. Please note that, should the need arise to cite the abridged name, the only valid abbreviation for our journal’s title is “Myrmecol. News”.
>>> Myrmecological News has been included in Web of Science [as of 13 November 2009]
Inclusion in Web of Science has immensely increased accessibility of the journal's content. Covering about 10,000 high-impact journals worldwide, Web of Science provides access to the world's leading citation databases. Web of Science has over 20 million users in 90 countries.
Acceptance rate for inclusion in Web of Science is about 10% of applications. We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to making our journal’s inclusion in Web of Science possible – authors, referees, members of the editorial advisory board, all those who helped with linguistic revisions, proof reading and other crucial tasks, and of course, those who read and cited research published in our journal.
>>> Myrmecological News has been included in SCOPUS [as of 20 May 2009]
Inclusion in SCOPUS, the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources, has significantly increased accessibility of the journal's content
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