Australian Journal of Zoology


The Australian Journal of Zoology is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal published by CSIRO Publishing. It publishes original research and review articles on zoology, with a special focus on Australian fauna. It is broad in scope, covering a range of disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, molecular biology, genetics, reproductive biology, developmental biology, parasitology, morphology, behaviour, ecology, zoogeography, systematics and evolution.
The current Editor-in-Chief is Paul Cooper.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in AGRICOLA, Elsevier BIOBASE, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents, Science Citation Index, Scopus and Zoological Record.

Impact factor

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.591.