European Journal of Taxonomy

The European Journal of Taxonomy is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal for descriptive taxonomy of living and fossil eukaryotes, covering subjects in zoology, botany, and palaeontology. It is supported by the EJT Consortium, a group of European natural history institutes, which fully funds the publication. Therefore, the journal is free for both authors and readers (diamond open access).

History
The journal was initiated by a task force of people from the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy network. The first article was published on 9 September 2011. In October 2015, the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities endorsed the journal.

Several older journals have been merged into the European Journal of Taxonomy:
 * Journal of Afrotropical Zoology
 * Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie
 * Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie
 * Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre
 * Steenstrupia
 * Zoologische Mededelingen

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.372.
 * Biological Abstracts
 * BIOSIS Previews
 * CAB Abstracts
 * Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
 * Science Citation Index Expanded
 * The Zoological Record