The foremost aim of Ichnos is to promote excellence in ichnologic research. Primary emphases center upon the ethologic and ecologic significance of tracemaking organisms; organism-substrate interrelationships; and the role of biogenic processes in environmental reconstruction, sediment dynamics, sequence or event stratigraphy, biogeochemistry, and sedimentary diagenesis. Each contribution rests upon a firm taxonomic foundation, although papers dealing solely with systematics and nomenclature may have less priority than those dealing with conceptual and interpretive aspects of ichnology. Contributions from biologists and geologists are equally welcome.
The format for Ichnos is designed to accommodate several types of manuscripts, including Research Articles (comprehensive articles dealing with original, fundamental research in ichnology), and Short Communications (short, succinct papers treating certain aspects of the history of ichnology, book reviews, news and notes, or invited comments dealing with current or contentious issues). The large page size and two-column format lend flexibility to the design of tables and illustrations. Thorough but timely reviews and rapid publication of manuscripts are integral parts of the process.
Journal metrics
Usage
22K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.8 (2023) Impact Factor
1.0 (2023) 5 year IF
2.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.374 (2023) SNIP
0.368 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
48 days avg. from submission to first
decision
22 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
67% acceptance rate
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and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
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Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
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journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
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Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Murray K. Gingras Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science University of Alberta, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada (780) 492-1963 tel [email protected]
Luis Alberto Buatois Department of Geological Sciences University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada
Associate Editors
Marco Avanzini - Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italy Greg Baniak – Petronas Canada, 215 2 Street Southwest #1600, Calgary, AB T2P 1M4, Canada Fiona Burns - Firmground Lts, 34 Warrener Gardens, Gwelup, Perth, WA 6018, Australia Noelia Carmona - Instituto de Investigaciónen Paleobiología y Geología, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Av. Roca 1242, R8332EXZ, General Roca, Argentina Karen Chin - Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2200 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80309, United States Lynn Dafoe - Geological Survey of Canada, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y 4A2, Canada John R. Foster - Museum of Western Colorado, 462 Ute Ave, Grand Junction, CO 81502, United States María Victoria Sánchez - División de Icnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Av. Angel Gallardo 470 (1405) Buenos Aires, Argentina Jerry D. Harris - Dixie State College, 225 South 700 East, St. George, Utah 84770, United States Daniel Hembree - 316 Clippinger Laboratories, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, United States Hendrik Klein - Saurierwelt Paläontologisches Museum, Alte Richt 7, D-92318 Neumarkt, Germany Dirk Knaust - Equinor, Stavanger N-4035, Norway Spencer G. Lucas - New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road, SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104, United States James A. MacEachern - Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada Christian Meyer - Bassel University, Switzerland Karen Moreno - Universidad Austral de Chile Renata Netto - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil Laura Piñuela - Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), 33328 Colunga, 33005, Asturias, Spain Alina Shchepetkina - Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Alfred Uchman - Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa, 30387 Krakow, Poland Sally Walker - Department of Geology, University of Georgia, 210 Field St, Athens, GA 30602, United States Andreas Wetzel - Bassel University, Switzerland John Paul Zonneveld - Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6H 2E3, Canada Ana Zylinska - University of Warsaw, Poland
Founding Editors
George Pemberton (EIC 1990-2018) Robert W. Frey (EIC 1990-1992)
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted and/or indexed in: Thomson Scientific: BIOSIS, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences, and Science Citation Index Expanded.
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