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| Copeia (journal) | |
|---|---|
| Title | Copeia |
| Discipline | Herpetology; Ichthyology; Zoology |
| Abbreviation | Copeia |
| Publisher | American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists |
| Country | United States |
| History | 1913–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Issn | 0045-8511 |
Copeia (journal) Copeia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists that focuses on Ichthyology, Herpetology, and related aspects of Zoology. Established in the early 20th century, the journal has chronicled research tied to taxa, field studies, laboratory experiments, and systematic revisions involving amphibians, reptiles, and fishes associated with institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, and Field Museum of Natural History. Editors, contributors, and readers have included researchers affiliated with universities like Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Florida, and Cornell University.
Founded in 1913 amid professionalization movements exemplified by societies such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Linnaean Society of London, the journal was initially tied to regional natural history networks centered at museums including the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Early editors were contemporaries of figures associated with the United States National Museum and corresponded with collectors working in expeditions to the Amazon River, Baja California, and Madagascar. Through the interwar period, the periodical documented field campaigns by researchers linked to Columbia University, University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan, and later adapted to postwar shifts in funding from agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
The journal publishes original research on systematics, taxonomy, ecology, behavior, physiology, and biogeography of amphibians, reptiles, and fishes, often involving taxa described in relation to type collections housed at institutions like the Natural History Museum, London and the Royal Ontario Museum. Its pages have contained revisions of genera treated by taxonomists influenced by the works of Charles Darwin, analyses referencing methods developed by Ernst Mayr and Zimmermann, and faunal surveys concomitant with conservation efforts endorsed by organizations such as IUCN and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. In addition to species descriptions, the journal has published methodological papers referencing statistical approaches from scholars at Princeton University and phylogenetic frameworks influenced by researchers at University of California, Davis.
Published quarterly, the journal operates under editorial oversight provided by an editorial board composed of scholars affiliated with institutions like Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Kansas, and Ohio State University. Peer review follows conventions established across journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and Science, including anonymous review processes and editorial decisions guided by standards similar to those at Nature. The journal maintains policies on nomenclature consistent with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and works with curators at repositories like the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the California Academy of Sciences to verify type specimens. Special issues have been guest-edited by scholars from Duke University, University of British Columbia, and University of Sydney.
Noteworthy contributions include taxonomic revisions that reshaped classifications paralleling landmark works by authors associated with Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and phylogeographic studies that intersected with research from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Papers appearing in the journal have provided baseline data for conservation listings by the IUCN Red List and have been cited in syntheses by committees at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and management plans of the National Park Service. Seminal ecological studies published in the journal have been referenced alongside classic papers from scholars at Yale University and University of California, Santa Cruz.
The journal is indexed in major databases used by researchers at institutions such as JSTOR, Web of Science, and Scopus, and is discoverable through library services provided by the Library of Congress and academic consortia at HathiTrust Digital Library. It is included in subject-specific indexes utilized by zoologists at Biodiversity Heritage Library and is cataloged in bibliographic systems employed by university libraries at University of Oxford and University of Cambridge.
Copeia has been regarded as a central outlet for research by practitioners linked to the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, garnering citations in work produced at research centers such as Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, California Academy of Sciences, and Australian Museum. Its long publishing record places it alongside century-old publications like those of the Royal Society and has influenced conservation policy discussions attended by representatives from the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy. While specialized, the journal’s contributions have been incorporated into textbooks used at Cornell University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Colorado State University for courses in vertebrate biology and field methods.
Category:Academic journals Category:Ichthyology journals Category:Herpetology journals