''Acta Zoologica'' is a

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published by

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on behalf of the

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and the

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. It was established in 1920 as ''Acta Zoologica'' and obtained its current name in 2002. It is one of the world's leading

zoological Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and dis ...

journals"Journals" The Center for North American Herpetology
/ref> and focuses on animal development, structure, and function, including physiological organization. It primarily publishes original research papers, but occasionally also publishes review articles. Increasingly, it has concentrated on animal development, with emphasis on the functional, comparative, and phylogenetic aspects. The

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Lennart Olsson Lennart Olsson, born 1961, is a Swedish zoologist and embryologist, professor of comparative zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Olsson focuses his research primarily on the embryological development of the vertebrate he ...

(

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 1.261, ranking it 15th out of 21 journals in the category "Anatomy & Morphology" and 105th out of 174 journals in the category "Zoology"

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* {{Official website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1463-6395 Zoology journals English-language journals Publications established in 1920 Wiley-Blackwell academic journals Quarterly journals Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1920 establishments in Sweden

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