Promoting excellence of monographs in taxonomy

Zhang, Zhi‐Qiang

doi:10.11646/megataxa.1.2.4

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“…Furthermore, it is an open-access journal and thus differs from Zootaxa and Phytotaxa, which are hybrid journals with only a portion of the papers available for open access. Megataxa encourages studies to address big science questions in taxonomy and aims to be a premium journal for most important works in taxonomy, especially large monographic revisions as well as highly significant original papers reporting major advances in taxonomy (Zhang 2020b). Whereas Zootaxa and Phytotaxa require monographs to be at least 60 printed pages, Megataxa sets a higher standard: a minimum length of 200 printed pages.…”

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“…Whereas Zootaxa and Phytotaxa require monographs to be at least 60 printed pages, Megataxa sets a higher standard: a minimum length of 200 printed pages. Zhang (2020b) estimated that only 7.8% of the 243 large works categorized as monographs in Zootaxa in 2019 and 2020 meet this requirement. Thus, Megataxa is a highly selective journal for papers of high impact in the field of taxonomy.…”

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Publication and impact: a bibliometric survey of Megataxa 1–10

ZHANG

2023

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Megataxa was founded in January 2020 as a sister journal of the two most important journals in taxonomy, Zootaxa and Phytotaxa, with similar goals to accelerate the documentation of undescribed species and promote the development of global taxonomy, but aims to be a premium journal for most important works in taxonomy. Megataxa has grown steadily since January 2020 and has published 44 papers of various types in 3329 pages, 14 issues and 10 volumes, averaging 76 pages per paper and including six large monographs. These were contributed by 99 authors from 27 countries in six regions. Analysis of citation data in the Web of Science Core Collection showed that papers in Megataxa were cited three to nine times as often as those in Zootaxa published in the same year. The estimated (non-official) journal impact factor of 2023 for Megataxa is 6.8. These indicate that although Megataxa is still in its infancy, it has great promise to become a journal of high impact in taxonomy.

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Publication and impact: a bibliometric survey of Megataxa 1–10

ZHANG

2023

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A Review of Taxonomic Concepts and Species Delimitation in Cycadales

Martínez-Domínguez,

Nicolalde-Morejón,

Vergara-Silva

et al. 2023

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Taxonomic data is essential to advance the discovery and description of biodiversity, as well as the study of evolutionary processes. Emerging large-scale datasets and new methods of analysis have provided different approaches to describe biodiversity. Here, we present a review of the taxonomic history in Cycadales including an analysis of historical taxonomic concepts and approaches used for species delimitation. We examine the trends in the publication of new species following taxonomic works in books, journals and horticultural catalogues, monographic projects and floras where species treatments were published. In addition, we review the studies concerning species delimitations using the literature available in scientific journals appearing in the database ISI Web of Knowledge. The approaches used were discussed throughout all research focused on empirical and theoretical considerations in each study. We review the current state of the studies on causal processes that have given rise to the currently recognized diversity. The trend shows that taxonomic work on discovery and description of species has been intensive in the last 40 years culminating in 38.8% of binomials published. As a result, we consider the relevance of the monographs and floras for identification of species for other biological disciplines and the content of these contributions is compared and discussed. A total of six criteria (diagnosability, phenetic, phylogenetic, genotypic cluster, niche specialization and coalescent) were detected from the following three approaches to species delimitation within Cycadales: traditional, integrative taxonomy, and monophyletic. In all cases, the results from these species delimitations not only provided a taxonomic treatment or proposed a new species, but also supposedly clarified the other species involved as a result of the new taxonomic concept of the new species described. Most investigations of species delimitation used the traditional approach or a phenetic criteria. Finally, we discuss evolutionary studies on causal processes involved in cycad diversity. This is considered in the context of species delimitation as hypothesis testing for a successful evaluation of variation in both genetic and morphological understanding.

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