Contributions to Zoology (formerly known as Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde) is a scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 that started in 1848 as a publication of the Committee in charge of the library of the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 Royal Zoological Society "Natura Artis Magistra" and became integrated in the library of the University of Amsterdam in 1939. Since 2005 the journal is published jointly by the Zoological Museum Amsterdam and the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis

Naturalis

Naturalis is the national natural history museum of the Netherlands, based in Leiden. It originated from the merger of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie and the Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie in 1984. In 1986 it was decided that the museum had to become a public museum and a new...

 in Leiden, now merged as the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis. The journal has been freely available online since 1997. The current editor-in-chief is J.W. Arntzen (Leiden).

Abstracting and indexing

Contributions to Zoology is indexed in the following services:

• Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
• Biological Abstracts
  Biological Abstracts
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• Bulletin signalétique
• CABS
  Centre for Airborne Systems
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   - Current Awareness in Biological Sciences
• Current Contents
  Current Contents
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• Referativnyi Zhurnal
• Science Citation Index
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• UnCover
• Wildlife Review,
• The Zoological Record
  The Zoological Record
  The Zoological Record is a print and electronic index of zoological literature that also serves as the unofficial register of scientific names in zoology....
  
  

The journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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of 1.11.