Focus and Scope

Russian Journal of Herpetology is an international multi-disciplinary journal devoted to herpetology. Russian Journal of Herpetology accepts original papers on ecology, behavior, conservation, systematics, evolutionary morphology, paleontology, physiology, cytology and genetics of amphibians and reptiles.

Types of Contributions

• original papers
• invited or contributed reviews on specific topics
• short communications on topics of immediate interest, new methods and ideas in progress
• notices of meetings, symposia, and short courses
• book reviews

Section Policies

General Part

• Natalia Ananjeva
• Igor Doronin
• Elena Syromyatnikova

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Captive Breeding and Conservation

• Natalia Ananjeva
• Igor Doronin
• Elena Syromyatnikova

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Short Communications

• Natalia Ananjeva
• Igor Doronin
• Elena Syromyatnikova

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

• Natalia Ananjeva
• Elena Syromyatnikova

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Obituary

• Natalia Ananjeva
• Igor Doronin
• Elena Syromyatnikova

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Monograph

• Natalia Ananjeva
• Igor Doronin
• Elena Syromyatnikova

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Delayed Open Access

The contents of this journal will be available in an open access format 24 month(s) after an issue is published.

Article Purchase

Readers without a subscription may still purchase individual articles. The following payment options and fees are available.

Buy an article published in Russian Journal of Herpetology: 599.50 (RUB)

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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Associate Editors

Staff Editors

Editorial Board

• K. Adler, Ithaca, USA
• A. Bauer, Villanova, USA
• W. Böhme, Bonn, Germany
• L. J. Borkin, St. Petersburg, Russia
• H. Cogger, Sydney, Australia
• T. Dujsebayeva, Almaty, Kazakhstan
• I. Ineich, Paris, France
• Jianping Jiang, Chengdu, China
• L. Luiselli, Roma, Italy
• R. Murphy, Toronto, Canada
• G. Nilson, Göteborg, Sweden
• N. L. Orlov, St. Petersburg, Russia
• H. Ota, Nishihara, Japan
• T. Papenfuss, Berkeley, CA, USA
• G. H. Segniagbeto, Lome, Togo

Journal Ethics Statement and Copyright Notice

The Russian Journal of Herpetology (RJH) complies with the basic ethical guidelines for scientific publications of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) [https://publicationethics.org].

Maintaining integrity of the research and its presentation is helped by following the rules of good scientific practice:

• Submitted manuscripts have not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere.
• The submitted work should be original and should not have been published elsewhere in any form or language (partially or in full). No any data by others are presented as if they were the author’s own. Proper acknowledgements to other works must be given, quotation marks are used for verbatim copying of material, and permissions secured for material that is copyrighted. Note: the journal may use software to screen for plagiarism.
• Results should be presented clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation. Authors should adhere to discipline-specific rules for acquiring, selecting and processing data.
• Authors are strongly advised to ensure the author group, the Corresponding Author, and the order of authors are all correct at submission. Adding and/or deleting authors during the revision stages is generally not permitted, but in some cases may be warranted. Reasons for changes in authorship should be explained in detail. Changes to authorship cannot be made after acceptance of a manuscript.
• Authors agree that the copyright for their article is transferred to the publisher if and when the article is accepted for publication. The copyright covers the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, photographic reproductions, microform, or any other reproduction of similar nature, and translations. Photographic reproductions, microform, or any other reproduction of text, figures, or tables from this journal is prohibited without permission obtained from the publisher.
• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work three years after publication simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
• The authors agree that the date of submission of the article is the date of it’s registration on the site, defined by the time zone of the site (UTC + 3:00).

For transparency, we encourage authors to submit an author contribution statements in the work that specifies the contribution of every author in order to promote transparency. These contributions should be listed at the separate title page.

New taxon names must be registered in ZooBank. To avoid duplications, please, check exist names via Nomenclature Zoologicus and Index Animalium.

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