journal: Mammalia
Impact Factor: 0.8
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Mammalia

  • Editor-in-Chief: Christiane Denys
Language: English
First published: January 1, 1936
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year

About this journal

Starting 2025, Mammalia will be transferred to Open Access on a year-by-year basis. All articles will thus appear without delay under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0. There will be no publication costs for the authors. The Open Access transformation is based on Subscribe-to-Open. You can find more information about the model here.

Objective
Mammalia is an international, multidisciplinary, bimonthly journal devoted to the inventory, analysis and interpretation of mammalian diversity. It publishes original results on all aspects of the systematics and biology of mammals with a strong focus on ecology, including biodiversity analyses, distribution habitats, diet, predator-prey relationships, competition, community analyses and conservation of mammals. The journal also accepts submissions on sub-fossil or recently extinct mammals.

Topics

  • Comparative, functional and evolutionary anatomy
  • Morphology
  • Classical and geometric morphometrics
  • Ecology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Phylogeny and phylogeography
  • Biogeography
  • Taxonomy and nomenclature
  • Physiology
  • Behavior
  • Conservation

Article formats
Original Studies, Reviews, Short Notes

 

Your Benefits

Your benefits:

  • Multifaceted approach to the systematics, biology, behavior, ecology and conservation of mammals
  • State-of-the-art research results
  • High quality peer-review
  • Renowned international editorial board
  • Online and print publication incl. ahead of print mode

Complete Archive Access

As of 2026, all De Gruyter journal subscriptions include access to every issue, from Volume 1, Issue 1 through to today, meaning subscribers can access even more research at no additional cost.

  • January 20, 2026
    Rishi Ram Paudel, Prashant Kumar Shrivastava, Rohit Chaudhary, Aadil Kazi
  • January 5, 2026
    Hayato Takada, Akiyoshi Sato, Setsuko Katusta
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    First survey of cave dwelling bats of the Tigray highlands, northern Ethiopia
    November 12, 2025
    Gebru Tadesse, Teklemedhn Welu, Kiros Welegerima, Asmelash Abay, Petr Benda, Pavel Hulva, Yonas Meheretu
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    The plausible extinction of an Andean rodent: a victim of climate change?
    June 26, 2025
    Erika Cuellar Soto, Mauro N. Tammone, Damián Voglino, Ulyses F.J. Pardiñas
  • January 9, 2026
    Christophe Bonenfant, Aurélie Cohas, Pierre-Alexandre Quittet, Jérôme Cavailhès, Rébecca Garcia, Nicolas Blache, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Mathieu Douhard
  • December 22, 2025
    Lucie Kubáčková, Getachew Mulualem, Zewdneh Tomass, Tessema Bibo, Yonas Meheretu, Josef Bryja
  • May 28, 2025
    Giovanni Amori, Luca Luiselli
  • December 25, 2025
    Kaisei Miyajima, Hiromi Daikuhara, Jin Shibata, Kento Annaka, Hikari Ikema, Shigefumi Tanaka, Toshie Sugiyama, Akifumi Nakata, Tomisato Miura, Hideaki Yamashiro
  • January 3, 2025
    Edvin Riveros-Riffo, Francisco J. González-Pinilla, R. Eduardo Palma
  • December 30, 2025
    Arturo Elosegi, Joxerra Aihartza, Amaiur Esnaola, Jorge González-Esteban
  • August 29, 2025
    Loan Arguel, Laëtitia Buisson, Philippe Baran, Mélanie Némoz, Frédéric Blanc, Léa De Sauverzac, Maëlle Dupuy, Christine Fournier-Chambrillon, Pascal Fournier, Vincent Lacaze, Thierry Laporte, Melody Lim, Émile Poncet, Xavier Rozec, Pascal Laffaille
  • January 5, 2026
    Raquel Teixeira de Moura, Renata S. Sousa-Lima, Hugo Eduardo Ferreira, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca
  • January 6, 2026
    Carlos Sarango-Tandazo, Eddie Jaramillo, Rocío Saraguro, Marcos D. Calle-Morán, Marlon Vega, Miguel Alcoser-Villagómez, Víctor Romero
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    Effect of spring green-up dynamics on body mass and growth of bighorn sheep
    January 7, 2026
    Limoilou-Amélie Renaud, Félix-Olivier Dufour, François Rousseu, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Fanie Pelletier
  • April 7, 2025
    Elena D. Zemlemerova, Valeria A. Komarova, Leonid A. Lavrenchenko
  • August 27, 2025
    Aleksey A. Martynov, Elena V. Cherepanova, Anton R. Gromov, Mengistu Wale, Yihew Biru, Mesele Yihune, Leonid A. Lavrenchenko

Journal Impact Factor 0.8 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025)
5-year Journal Impact Factor 1 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025)
Journal Citation Indicator 0.49 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025)
CiteScore 1.9 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025)
SCImago Journal Rank 0.333 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper 0.621 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus)

Submission
You can easily submit your manuscript online. Simply go to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mammalia and you will be guided through the whole peer-reviewing and publishing process.

Your benefits of publishing with us
  • Easy-to-use online submission, peer review, and publication system
  • Color figure publication free of charge
  • Short turnaround times
  • Every article easily discoverable because of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
  • Secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico
  • Professional sales and marketing activities

Submission process

  • Submission of your paper via our submission management tool following the Instructions_for_Authors (you will be guided through every step of the submission process)
  • A decision on your paper is intended within six weeks.
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We look forward to receiving your manuscript!

Hybrid Open Access

In this journal, authors have the option to publish their articles under an open access license. Open Access allows you as an author to retain copyright and share your findings with colleagues and interested parties worldwide without any restraints. If you choose to publish in hybrid gold open access, more information on costs can be found under the " Hybrid Journals" tab here.
Please note that authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement can publish open access without paying an article processing charge (APC). More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found under the "Funding and Support" tab here.

Editor-in-Chief
Christiane Denys (Paris, France)

Associate Editors
Stéphane Aulagnier (Castanet Tolosan, France)
Josef Bryja (Brno, Czech Republic)
Niccolò Fattorini (University of Siena, Siena, Italy)
Boris Krasnov (Midreshet-Ben Gurion, Israel)
Boris Kryštufek (Koper, Slovenia)
Géraldine Veron (Paris, France)

Editorial Board
Giovanni Amori (Rome, Italy)
Diego Astúa (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Petr Benda (National Museum and Charles University, Czech Republic)
Ernesto Capanna (Rome, Italy)
Louise H. Emmons (Washington DC, USA)
Steve M. Goodman (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
John Gurnell (London, UK)
Heikki Henttonen (Vantaa, Finland)
Herwig Leirs (Antwerpen, Belgium)
Sandro Lovari (University of Siena, Siena, Italy)
Darrin Lunde (New York, USA)
François Moutou (Maisons-Alfort, France)
Georgy I. Shenbrot (Mizpe Ramon, Israel)
Mariana Silva Ferreira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Peter J. Taylor (Durban, South Africa)
Marcus Vinicius Vieira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Diego Astúa (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Mariana Silva Ferreira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Petr Benda (National Museum and Charles University, Czech Republic)

Editorial Office

Gunda Stöber
De Gruyter Brill
Genthiner Str. 13
10785 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49-30-26005-279
E-mail: mammalia.editorial@degruyterbrill.com

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Journal information
Additional information
eISSN:
1864-1547
ISSN:
0025-1461
Language:
English
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Additional information
First published:
January 1, 1936
Publication Frequency:
6 issues per year
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