| Cladistics | |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Cladistics |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | James M. Carpenter |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publication history | 1985-present |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Impact factor (2009) |
4.929 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0748-3007 (print) 1096-0031 (web) |
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Cladistics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research in cladistics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Willi Hennig Society. Cladistics publishes papers relevant to evolution, systematics, and integrative biology. Papers of both a conceptual or philosophical nature, discussions of methodology, empirical studies on taxonomic groups from animals to bacteria, and applications of systematics in disciplines such as genomics and paleontology are accepted. Five types of paper appear in the journal: reviews, regular papers, forum papers, letters to the editor, and book reviews. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2009 impact factor of 4.929, ranking it 7th out of 45 journals in the category "Evolutionary Biology". Its editor-in-chief is Dennis Wm. Stevenson.