Zootaxa Suppressed from 2019 JCR Data (2020 release) Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/zootaxa-suppressed-from-2019-jcr-data-2020-release.html Online petition signatures en-us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:30 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Dr. Diego Santos Garcia [Signature #3972] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23776184?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:15:56 UTC 23776184 Dr Irene Pellegrino [Signature #3971] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775178?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:51:23 UTC 23775178 Mr Sandro Tripepi [Signature #3970] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775177?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:49:24 UTC 23775177 Anonymous [Signature #3969] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775139?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:21:15 UTC 23775139 Ms Anonymous [Signature #3968] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775124?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:06:36 UTC 23775124 Dr. Andrea Pilastro [Signature #3967] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775123?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:05:34 UTC 23775123 Dr Rade Garić [Signature #3966] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775118?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:55:20 UTC 23775118 Mr. Abeje Teme [Signature #3965] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775074?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:01:22 UTC 23775074 Dr. Carlo Froglia [Signature #3964] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775070?utm_medium=rss Researchers have to be evaluated on the quality of their work, not on the score attributed, by a blind algorithm, to the journals where their papers are published.

]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:53:38 UTC 23775070 Prof. Marco Cucco [Signature #3963] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775054?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:31:22 UTC 23775054 Dr Stefania Chiesa [Signature #3962] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775052?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:30:42 UTC 23775052 Mr Romolo Fochetti [Signature #3961] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775048?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:29:35 UTC 23775048 Dr. Danila Kostin [Signature #3960] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775044?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:20:32 UTC 23775044 Dr Ilaria Bernabo [Signature #3959] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775041?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:15:33 UTC 23775041 Dr Elisabetta Coluccia [Signature #3958] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775040?utm_medium=rss We, the undersigned, call on Clarivate Analytics team to immediately revise the suppression of Zootaxa from the 2019 JCR Data, taking into account the specifics of the (endangered) research field and the high importance of the journal for biodiversity and biodiversity conservation.
We therefore urge that Zootaxa is removed from this list, and that a revisionis communicated to the scientific world, and we request that for the coming years, the analytics may be improved so that the algorithms take into account the specifics of aberrant citation patterns related to the field of research, as well as the global relevance of the research field.

]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:14:11 UTC 23775040 Prof Francesca Barbero [Signature #3957] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775037?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:05:31 UTC 23775037 Dr. Andrea Galimberti [Signature #3956] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775036?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:04:19 UTC 23775036 Dr John Skartveit [Signature #3955] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775033?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:01:45 UTC 23775033 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #3954] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775031?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:01:11 UTC 23775031 Elvira Brunelli [Signature #3953] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775030?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:00:18 UTC 23775030 Ms. Anonymous [Signature #3952] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775025?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:51:48 UTC 23775025 Dr Anonymous [Signature #3951] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23775016?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:28:30 UTC 23775016 Dr. Maria Cristina Bruno [Signature #3950] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774990?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:15:56 UTC 23774990 Mr. Mattia Menchetti [Signature #3949] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774989?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:15:19 UTC 23774989 Italo Nofroni [Signature #3948] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774980?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:37:53 UTC 23774980 Ruth Percino Daniel [Signature #3947] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774977?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:26:44 UTC 23774977 Ms Anonymous [Signature #3946] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774966?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:10:25 UTC 23774966 Dr. Anonymous [Signature #3945] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774947?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:19:57 UTC 23774947 Dr. Ji Eun Seo [Signature #3944] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774913?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:51:59 UTC 23774913 Mr. Wen-Chien Huang [Signature #3943] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774911?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:46:19 UTC 23774911 Dr. Hsuan-Ching Ho [Signature #3942] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774902?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:31:53 UTC 23774902 Dr LAKSHMI Devi Menon [Signature #3941] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774875?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 03:47:02 UTC 23774875 Dr. Mau Trinh-Dang [Signature #3940] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774835?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:45:23 UTC 23774835 Aditi Jayarajan [Signature #3939] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774817?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:27:39 UTC 23774817 Frances Tenorio [Signature #3938] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774773?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 01:39:30 UTC 23774773 Ms. Anonymous [Signature #3937] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774754?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 01:07:46 UTC 23774754 Dr. Shizuko Nakai [Signature #3936] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774727?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:37:05 UTC 23774727 Mr. De-Yao Zhou [Signature #3935] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774714?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:19:19 UTC 23774714 Ms. Anisbeth Daza [Signature #3934] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774692?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:49:15 UTC 23774692 MR. Santiago Gonzalez Rojas [Signature #3933] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774688?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:44:21 UTC 23774688 Dr Maria Logacheva [Signature #3932] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774675?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:01:28 UTC 23774675 Ms Manuela Ramos [Signature #3931] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774662?utm_medium=rss To me Zootaxa is an excelent journal with high standard quality in taxonomic descriptions giving fundamental science to the community. It is completely essential to my research too. I would remove self-citation from the Clarivate's list of requirements for impact factor calculations. Can't be applied to all journals. It's absolutely unfair.

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:45:25 UTC 23774662 Mr Keith Wilson [Signature #3930] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774658?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:38:33 UTC 23774658 Dr MARCELA IVONNE BENITEZ DIAZ MIRON [Signature #3929] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774650?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:22:57 UTC 23774650 Dr Raquel Ferreira [Signature #3928] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774640?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:02:06 UTC 23774640 Dr Giovanni Fanelli [Signature #3927] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774638?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:00:48 UTC 23774638 Dr. María Elena Castellanos Páez [Signature #3926] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774627?utm_medium=rss Zootaxa meets the need for scientists to publish high-quality taxonomic documents that provide very important information for all of us working in various fields of biology.

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:22:38 UTC 23774627 Dr. Richard Sehnal [Signature #3925] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774624?utm_medium=rss a narrowly focused journal for morphological and taxonomic work, the exclusion from IF is the insult of the excellent work of editors and the considerable work of all authors.

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:16:00 UTC 23774624 Mrs. Lara Baptista [Signature #3924] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774622?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:13:06 UTC 23774622 Dr. Oscar Reverter-Gil [Signature #3923] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774615?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:00:03 UTC 23774615 Dr. Katharina Jörger [Signature #3922] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774600?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 08:34:59 UTC 23774600 John Starmer [Signature #3921] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774546?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 07:24:32 UTC 23774546 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #3920] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774539?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 07:10:49 UTC 23774539 Prof. Dr Krzysztof Jażdżewski [Signature #3919] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774536?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 07:09:43 UTC 23774536 Dr Elizabeth Ortega-Mayagoitia [Signature #3918] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774531?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 07:02:07 UTC 23774531 Dr Valentina Costa [Signature #3917] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774505?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 06:33:23 UTC 23774505 Dr André Padua [Signature #3916] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774467?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:51:34 UTC 23774467 Dr. Haruki Tatsuta [Signature #3915] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774436?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:20:33 UTC 23774436 Ms Anna Mikhlina [Signature #3914] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774420?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:02:36 UTC 23774420 Mr James Bernot [Signature #3913] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774416?utm_medium=rss Zootaxa is a high quality journal and is arguably the most important journal for taxonomic research

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:59:06 UTC 23774416 Mr Anonymous [Signature #3912] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774412?utm_medium=rss I believe Zootaxa is the only journal No. 1 journal in the field of taxonomy and systematics.

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:46:45 UTC 23774412 Dr Katarzyna Grzelak [Signature #3911] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774401?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:32:03 UTC 23774401 Dr Inmaculada Frutos [Signature #3910] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774398?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:24:55 UTC 23774398 Dr. Carl Birky [Signature #3909] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774394?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:17:22 UTC 23774394 assoc. prof., dr. Petr Benda [Signature #3908] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774356?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 03:40:59 UTC 23774356 Mr. Raden Pramesa Narakusumo [Signature #3907] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774345?utm_medium=rss Zootaxa is reputable journal on taxonomy and systematic biology. It publishes a lot of new taxa every years, with responsible editor and reviewers. It helps a lot of developing countries researcher since they can make it free to publish system. There should be no way to incriminate this journal with the misleading self citation scheme.

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 03:30:53 UTC 23774345 Stefania Puce [Signature #3906] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774330?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 03:09:13 UTC 23774330 Anonymous [Signature #3905] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774328?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 03:03:59 UTC 23774328 Mr. Matteo Garzia [Signature #3904] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774322?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:55:18 UTC 23774322 Dr. Charles Brockhouse [Signature #3903] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774319?utm_medium=rss Taxonomy is a critical issue in disease transmission, Many arthropod disease vectors are studied by small numbers of taxonomic specialists, and while their work is "niche" it is critical to full understanding of transmission.

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:48:04 UTC 23774319 Dr. Daisuke Watabiki [Signature #3902] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774318?utm_medium=rss Lepidopteran agricultural pests and their relative species

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:41:42 UTC 23774318 Ms Michelle Fernandes [Signature #3901] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774297?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:15:22 UTC 23774297 Dr. Ulrike Obertegger [Signature #3900] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774285?utm_medium=rss I agree

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 02:04:29 UTC 23774285 Dr. Bálint Üveges [Signature #3899] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774269?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:47:29 UTC 23774269 Dr satish mokashe [Signature #3898] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774268?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:47:12 UTC 23774268 Dr Luis Ceriaco [Signature #3897] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774261?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:39:04 UTC 23774261 mr Jos Kielgast [Signature #3896] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774255?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:28:17 UTC 23774255 Mr Jean-Pierre BOUDOT [Signature #3895] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774253?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:26:32 UTC 23774253 Dr Nataliya Budaeva [Signature #3894] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774250?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:20:57 UTC 23774250 Mr Faiz Nashiruddin Muhammad [Signature #3893] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774246?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:15:30 UTC 23774246 Dr. Calatayud Paul-andre [Signature #3892] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774243?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:12:39 UTC 23774243 Prof. Norbert Walz [Signature #3891] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774240?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:08:03 UTC 23774240 Prof Syaukani Syaukani [Signature #3890] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774233?utm_medium=rss Please reconsider removing the journal "Zootaxa" from the Journal Citation Report (JCR)
based on an "anomalous citation pattern" (a high rate of auto-citations), thank you.

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:59:15 UTC 23774233 Dr. Kanmiya Kenkichi [Signature #3889] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774228?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:52:41 UTC 23774228 Peter Quakenbush [Signature #3888] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774224?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:51:29 UTC 23774224 西本 裕 [Signature #3887] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774217?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:44:04 UTC 23774217 Dr. Taro Adati [Signature #3886] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774201?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:21:48 UTC 23774201 Ms Érica Becker [Signature #3885] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774187?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:58:29 UTC 23774187 Paula Carolina Rodríguez Flores [Signature #3884] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774184?utm_medium=rss Dear colleague,

I am a PhD student; my dissertation is focused on taxonomy of crustaceans. I am very disappointed after seeing that the journal Zootaxa has been removed from the JCR due the algorithm that try to avoid deceptive practices to inflate the IF. Many of my PhD articles are published in Zootaxa because there are few journals dealing with pure taxonomy included in the JCR and Zootaxa is free to charge and the most effective one. Our field (taxonomy) is already a punished field in science due to the lack of specialists, the low impact of our work, and few young people, like me, starting our careers in taxonomy. Therefore, this decision adversely affects an already endangered field and the few young people wishing to become taxonomists. According to your statistics, Zootaxa is the leader journal in new species description and nomenclatural acts (http://www.organismnames.com/metrics.htm?page=tsj). These statistics indicate that Zootaxa is currently the most important journal, and the majority of animal taxonomists are publishing there. Logically, in this context, self-citation rate is high, but it would be unfair to consider it as a misleading strategy to increase their IF.

Please, I beg you to re-consider this decision and include Zootaxa in the JCR impact factor list again.
All the best,

Paula.

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:48:30 UTC 23774184 Dr. Paola Flórez [Signature #3883] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774183?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:45:48 UTC 23774183 Dr Fernando Martinez-Freiria [Signature #3882] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774175?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:30:38 UTC 23774175 Prof. Grzegorz Gabrys [Signature #3881] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774173?utm_medium=rss Zootaxa is essential for taxonomists!

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:29:19 UTC 23774173 Mrs Antoinette Kelso-Maguire [Signature #3880] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774169?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:23:07 UTC 23774169 Dr. Natalia Zavialova [Signature #3879] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774155?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:55:49 UTC 23774155 Dr. Nikita Zelenkov [Signature #3878] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774149?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:45:27 UTC 23774149 валентина гонтарь [Signature #3877] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774147?utm_medium=rss I support all bryozoologists in the question of ZOOTAXA

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:40:18 UTC 23774147 Dr Casey Dunn [Signature #3876] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774139?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:20:50 UTC 23774139 Dr Jos Massard [Signature #3875] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774138?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:18:45 UTC 23774138 Dr ANASTASIA BORISANOVA [Signature #3874] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774137?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:15:21 UTC 23774137 Dr. Meezan Asagabaldan [Signature #3873] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774134?utm_medium=rss Zootaxa is one of the best and high-quality journals in the world focusing on zoological taxonomy and very important for the taxonomist and other researchers.

We urge that Zootaxa is removed from this list of Clarivate JSR. Thank you

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