Number of pages published
135,778 pages in total; length of papers from
1 page to 1295 pages
302
pages in 2001
2445 pages in 2002
6033
pages in 2003
9641
pages in 2004
12447
pages in 2005
22052 pages in 2006
23530 pages in 2007
24409 pages in 2008
28858 pages in 2009
Number
of monographs/books (papers with
60
pages or more)
335 in total during 2001-2009
1 in
2001
8 in
2002
20 in 2003
27 in 2004
31 in 2005
58 in 2006
57 in 2007
62 in 2008
71 in 2009
Number of new taxa published
14050 (2150 of Diptera,
1974 of Coleoptera, 1334 of Crustacea,
1163 of Hymenoptera, 948 of Acari,
931 of Hemiptera, 701 of Lepidoptera, 580
of Araneae, 512 of
Pisces, 493 of Trichoptera, 255 of Platyhelminthes, 246 of
Myriapoda, 242 of Orthoptera, 237 of Reptilia, 230 of Amphibia,
216 of Annelida, 220 of Mollusca, 144 of Collembola,
130 of
Porifera, 129 of Phthiraptera, 118 of Thysanoptera, 109 of Coelenterata,
104 of
Nematoda, 103 of Ephemeroptera, 91 of
Plecoptera, 83 of Tardigrada,
73 of Phasmatodea, 71 of Odonata,
69 of Echinodermata,
55 of
Blattodea, 40 of Opiliones,
30 of Psocoptera,
25 of
Neuroptera, 24 of Protozoa, 24 of Pycnogonida,
24 of Scorpiones, 23 of Isoptera,
22
of Mammalia,
19
of Megaloptera,
17 of Bryozoa, 15 of Rotifera, 15 of Mecoptera,
15 of Aves, 12 of Ascidiacea, 10
of Gnathostomulida,
12 of Gastrotricha, 8 of Nemertea, 8 of Protura,
6 of Pseudoscorpiones, 6 of Brachiopoda,
6 of Mantodea, 4 of Trilobita,
3 of Loricifera,
3 of Schizomida, 3
of Ricinulei,
2 of Strepsiptera, 2 of
Onychophora, 2 of Siphonaptera,
2 of Raphidioptera,
1 of Uropygida,
1 of Acanthocephala,
1
of Embioptera,
1 of Palpigradi,
1 of Solifugae,
1 of Entoprocta).
Number and geographical distribution of authors
6808 (North
America: USA 1078, Mexico 194, Canada 123; South and Central
America: Brazil 1038, Argentina 298, Colombia
69, Venezuela 55, Chile 39, Costa Rica 26, Uruguay
19, Cuba 17,
Peru 15, Ecuador 14, Bolivia 9, Panama
8, Guyana 6; Paraguay 3, Jamaica 2, Puerto Rico
2, Hunduras 2,
Aruba 1,
Bermuda 1, Guatemala 2; Europe: Germany 318, UK 208, France
190, Spain 180, Italy 159, Russia 151, Turkey 95, Poland 89, Czech Republic
86, Belgium 80, The Netherlands 49, Sweden 47, Austria 43,
Switzerland 35, Norway
31, Hungary 30, Denmark 33, Finland 29, Serbia
& Montenegro 27, Portugal
24, Ukraine 18,
Slovakia
17, Bulgaria 17,
Croatia 13, Ireland 13, Greece 12, Slovenia
10, Romania 8, Tunisia 6, Lithuania 5,
Estonia 4, Iceland 3, Canary
Islands 3, Turkmenistan
1, Cyprus 1, La Reunion 1, Moldova 1, Bosnia
& Herzegovina 1, Belarus 1, Guernsey
1; Greenland 1; Africa: South
Africa 75, Egypt 14, Madagascar 12, Reublique de Cote d'Ivoire
8, Kenya 5, Benin 5, Nigeria 4; Cameroon 4, Mauritius 2,
Tanzania 2,
Namibia
1, Algeria 2, Ghana 2, Republic
of Congo 1, Senegal 1, Gabon 1; Republic of Guinea 2; Asia:
P.R. China 586, Japan 161, India 118, R. China 69, Iran 53, Korea
44, Thailand 35, Israel 23, Vietnam 22, Sri Lanka
20, Malaysia 22, Singapore 17, Indonesia 14,
Pakistan 11, Philippines 10,
Jordan 4, Saudi Arabia 3, Brunei 2, Mongolia 2, Bangladesh
1, Borneo 1, Cambodia 2, Sultanate of Oman
1, United Arab Emirates
1, Mayotte 1;
Iraq 1;
Australasia-Oceania:
Australia 292, New Zealand 57, New Caledonia 3, Papua
New Guinea 3, Guam 2,
Fiji 2, Palau 1, French Polynesia 1).
Top 10 most productive authors of the last six years (2004-2009)
74
papers
D. YANG (R.P. China)
38 papers P.K.L
NG (Singapore)
36 papers
H.H. NG (Singapore)
34 R.
DONG (R.P. China)
34 Y.L.
ZHANG (R.P. China)
30 X.Y.
HONG (R.P. China)
29 W.Z.
CAI (R.P. China)
29 papers
X.F. XUE (P.R. China)
29 papers
M.S. ZHU (P.R. China)
25 papers X.H. WANG (P.R. China)
Number
of editors and their contributions
123 active
editors in 2007, each accepted on average 9
papers (min. 1 and max. 64); only 12 editors (<10%) accepted over
20 papers in 2007 and these top 12 editors accepted about a third of
all papers published in 2007; most editors (68%) accepted 1 to10
papers in 2007
61-65 papers: Vences, M.
(Amphibia)
41-45
papers: Schaefer, C. (Hemiptera)
36-40
papers: Carranza, S (Reptilia)
31-35
papers: Page, L. (Pisces); Gusarov, V. (Coleoptera); Zhang,
Z.Q. (Various)
26-30
papers: Ahyong, S. (Crustacea); Evenhuis, N. (Diptera)
21-25
papers: Carvalho, M.R. de (Pisces); Dronen N. Jr
(Platyhelminthes); Moulton, J.K. (Diptera); Weiner, W.M. (Collembola)
16-20
papers: Johnson, P. (Coleoptera); Pollock, D.
(Coleoptera); Castro, P. (Crustacea); Goy, J. (Crustacea); Shear, W.
(Myriapoda); Rentz, D. (Orthoptera); Bickel, D. (Diptera); Dietrich, C.
(Hemiptera); Winterton, S. (small insect orders); Longino, J.
(Hymenoptera); Seeman, O. (Acari)
11-15
papers: Brown, J. (Lepidoptera); Buffington, M.
(Hymenoptera); Fan, Q.H. (Acari); Larsen, K. (Crustacea); Dewalt, R.E.
(Mecoptera & Megaloptera); Hubbard, M. (Ephemeroptera); Packer, L.
(Hymenoptera); Walker-Smith, G. (Crustacea); Ribera, I. (Coleoptera); Svavarsson, J.
(Crustacea); Karaman, G. (Crustacea); Morse, G. (Coleoptera); O'Hara, J.
(Diptera); Pitts, J. (Hymenoptera); Rocha, L. (Pisces); Sterrer, W.
(Platyhelminthes)
05-10 papers:
27 editors
01-05
papers: 57 editors
Rejection rate
26.8% during 2001-2003 (pooled
from rates for papers on Arachnida, Coleoptera, Diptera, Mollusca,
Nematoda and Pisces)
Speed of publication (for papers
published by the end of 2003)
Published 2-60 days* after the acceptance by
editors
Accepted 58 (2-240) days** after peer
review (pooled from data for papers on Arachnida, Diptera, Mollusca
and Pisces)
* Reduction of the time "in-press" is what Zootaxa aims at and can
do, although delays can be caused by authors not returning corrections
to proofs in a timely manner.
** Mean (min.-max.); time lag in review/revision depends very much on the reviewers and
authors.
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