Mikhailov K.G.1*, Malakhov V.V.2, Temereva E.N.3 2025. [The unique phenomenon in the world of Russian science periodicals: the journal “Invertebrate Zoology” celebrates twentieth birthday] // Invert. Zool. Vol.22. No.2: 372–382 [in Russian, with English summary].
1 Zoological Museum, Moscow Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya st., 2, Moscow 125009 Russia.
2 Invertebrate Zoology Department, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1-12, Moscow 119234 Russia.
3 Evolutionary Biology Department, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1-12, Moscow 119234 Russia.
Kirill Mikhailov: mikhailov2000@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3304-5470
Vladimir Malakhov: vmalakhov@inbox.ru ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1637-2354
Elena Temereva: temereva@mail.ru ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7791-0553
* Corresponding author
doi: 10.15298/invertzool.22.2.12
ABSTRACT: The Russian scientific journal Invertebrate Zoology was founded in 2004 on the basis of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The journal was started, first of all, as a tool for publishing the best graduation works of students of the department, however, it quickly outgrew this initial task. This article provides an overview of the work of the journal Invertebrate Zoology in 2004–2024. A total of 409 scientific articles by 266 authors have been published on 5894 pages. The composition of the authors of the journal and the main taxa to which scientific articles are devoted are analyzed. The journal describes 142 species-level taxa (140 species and 2 subspecies), 25 genera (24 genera and 3 subgenera) and 3 families of various invertebrate animals. Over the 20 years of its work, the journal has gone a hard way, developing, building up its potential, an auditorium of authors, a list of topics for scientific articles and striving to get into various bases of scientific citation. In 2024, Invertebrate Zoology entered Q1 on the Scopus database and currently has the first level in the list of scientific journals from the “white list”.
KEY WORDS: scientific journals, invertebrate zoology, Scopus, Web of Science.