African Invertebrates

Cover of first issue
Discipline	Zoology, paleontology, systematics
Language	English
Edited by	John Midgley
Publication details
Former name(s)	Annals of the Natal Government Museum, Annals of the Natal Museum
History	1906–present
Publisher	Pensoft Publishers on behalf of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (South Africa)
Frequency	Biannual
Open access	Yes
License	CC-BY-4.0
Impact factor	0.36 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Afr. Invertebr.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	ANMUA9
ISSN	1681-5556 (print) 2305-2562 (web)
LCCN	2002229168
OCLC no.	48877367
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African Invertebrates is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers the taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, ecology, conservation, and palaeontology of Afrotropical invertebrates, whether terrestrial, freshwater, or marine. It is published by Pensoft Publishers on behalf of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum and the editor-in-chief is John M. Midgley (KwaZulu-Natal Museum).

History

The journal was established in 1906 as the Annals of the Natal Government Museum and after 1910 renamed to Annals of the Natal Museum.^[1] In 1989, the journal stopped publishing archaeological and anthropological papers, which was split of to a new journal, the Natal Museum Journal of Humanities (later: Southern African Humanities), while the Annals of the Natal Museum were restricted to the natural sciences.^[1] The journal obtained its name in 2001 when its scope was limited to the study of invertebrates.^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 0.622.^[5]