Acta Arachnologica
Last updated ISSN 0001-5202
Acta Arachnologica is published by Arachnological Society of Japan in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Acta Arachnologica concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
- Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
- Legal and Regulatory Analysis
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies
- Military Technology and Strategies
- Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy
- Study of Mite Species
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
Key facts
| Publisher | Arachnological Society of Japan |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0001-5202, 1880-7852 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,371 |
| Publishing since | 1936 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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