The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology publishes original contributions on all aspects of vertebrate paleobiology, including vertebrate origins, evolution, functional morphology, taxonomy, biostratigraphy, phylogenetics, paleoecology, paleobiogeography, and paleoanthropology. JVP publishes high quality peer-reviewed original articles, occasional reviews, and interdisciplinary papers. It is international in scope, and emphasizes both specimen- and field-based based research and the use of high-quality illustrations. Priority is given to articles dealing with topics of broad interest to the entire vertebrate paleontology community and to high-impact specialist studies. Articles dealing with narrower topics, including notes on taxonomic name changes (unless these deal with errors published in JVP), preliminary site reports, and documentation of new specimens of well-known taxa, are afforded lower priority.
ATTENTION: NEW EDITORIAL POLICY Due to the ethical issues surrounding the so-called 'Burmese amber' from the Cretaceous of northern Myanmar, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) has taken an initiative to call for a moratorium on publishing on fossils from Burmese amber to editors of more than 300 professional scientific journals and publishers that publish paleontological articles (click HERE to see the letter). Effective immediately, SVP also places a moratorium on publication in its Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (JVP) of any fossil specimens purchased from sources in Myanmar after June 2017 at least until the situation in the country stabilizes. Authors who wish to publish on fossils in amber from Myanmar are expected to supply the JVP Senior Editors with adequate proof to satisfy any and all editorial concerns regarding the provenance of the fossil specimens, in the form of certification or other demonstrable evidence, that they were acquired before the date both legally and ethically. Any manuscript submitted that fails to meet these criteria will not receive further consideration by JVP.
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JVP reaches thousands of readers across the globe
Papers published within 3 months of acceptance, utilizing T&F iFirst mechanism to rapidly publish an official version of record (VoR) for taxonomic works
No mandatory page charges (except for color pages outside of color budget)
Free-of-charge publication of all color figures for PDF versions of manuscripts
50 free high quality reprints
Large manuscript submissions are accepted (max 70 manuscript pp.)
Support provided to authors throughout the publication process, from the Editorial team and Publisher
24 free color pages published annually (subject to Senior Editors' approval)
Best Student Paper award (USD $1,000 awarded annually)
Preferential Open Access fee of USD $2,000 for JVP authors
All supplementary data is free to view online, with new options for a variety of supplementary data types (e.g., nexus files, 3D PDFs, etc.)
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Journal metrics
Usage
200K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.6 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.2 (2023) 5 year IF
2.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.650 (2023) SNIP
0.598 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
46 days avg. from submission to first
decision
52 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
36 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
77% 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
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
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Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
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
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
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.
Michael D. D'Emic Adelphi University Department of Biology Science Building, 1 South Avenue Garden City, NY 11530-0701 U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected]
Julie Meachen Des Moines University 8025 Grand Ave. West Des Moines, IA 50266 U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected]
Staff Editors
John M. Harris Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90007, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected]
Damian Ruiz Ramoni Museo de Ciencias Antropológicas y Naturales Universidad Nacional de La Rioja (UNLaR) Av. Luis M. de la Fuente s/n La Rioja, 5300, Argentina Email: [email protected]
Juliana Sterli Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio Departamento de Paleontología Av. Fontana 140 Trelew, 9100, Argentina Email: [email protected]
Hillary Maddin Carleton University 1125 Colonel By drive Ottawa, K1S 5B6 Canada Email: [email protected]
Dana Ehret New Jersey State Museum PO Box 530 205 West State Street Trenton, New Jersey Email: [email protected]
Memoirs Editor
Patrick M. O'Connor Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 119 Life Sciences Building Athens, OH 45701, U.S.A. Email: [email protected]
Phylogenetics Editor
Pedro L. Godoy, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Editorial Board
Thodoris Argyriou, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany. Amy Balanoff, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Gabriel (Gabe) Bever, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Jonathan Bloch, Florida Museum of Natural History, Florida, U.S.A. Matthew Borths, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A. Carole J. Burrow, Queensland Museum, Hendra, Australia. Esperanza Cerdeño Serrano, IANIGLA, CCT-CONICET-Mendoza, Argentina. Kerin Claeson, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Vanesa De Pietri, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Anthony Friscia, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Jörg Fröbisch, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. Adam Huttenlocker, University of Southern California, California, U.S.A. Zoe Kulik, Field Museum of Natural History, Illinois, U.S.A. Juan Liu, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Tyler Lyson, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Daniel Madzia, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Thomas Martin, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. Erin Maxwell, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany. Melissa Pardi, Illinois State Museum, Illinois, U.S.A. Travis Park, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Steve Salisbury, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Daniela Schwarz, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. Hans-Dieter Sues, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, U.S.A. Charles J. Underwood, Birkbeck College, London, U.K. Yi Hongyu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China.
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/Indexed in: EBSCOhost (listed in various services in EBSCOhost); Elsevier BV (GEOBASE, Scopus); OCLC (ArticleFirst, Electronic Collections Online); GeoRef; Personal Alert; ProQuest (listed in various services in ProQuest); Thomson Reuters - Biological Abstracts; TR - BIOSIS Previews; TR - Current Contents; TR - Science Citation Index Expanded; TR - Web of Science; TR - Zoological Record Online
Open access
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
ABOUT THE SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY Founded in 1940 by thirty-four paleontologists, the society is an international organization that has more than 2,400 members representing professionals, students, artists, preparators, and others interested in vertebrate paleontology. The society is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes. The object of the society is to advance the science of vertebrate paleontology and to serve the common interests and facilitate the cooperation of all persons concerned with the history, evolution, comparative anatomy, and taxonomy of vertebrate animals, as well as field occurrence, collection, and study of fossil vertebrates and the stratigraphy of the beds in which they are found. The society is also concerned with the conservation and preservation of fossil sites.
SVP also offers several different membership types.To find out more about membership of the SVP, including the different types of membership categories, please visit https://vertpaleo.org/join-the-society/
Print ISSN:
0272-4634
Online ISSN:
1937-2809
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