African Biodiversity & Conservation

African Biodiversity & Conservation, formerly known as Bothalia is a South African peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering the fields of botany, zoology and biodiversity, produced by the South African National Biodiversity Institute.[1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 0.52.[2]

African Biodiversity & Conservation
DisciplineBotany, Zoology, Biodiversity
LanguageEnglish
Edited byColleen Seymour
Publication details
Former name(s)
Bothalia
History1922–present
Publisher
AOSIS (South Africa)
FrequencyYearly
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
0.520 (2017)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Afr. Biodivers. Conserv.
Indexing
ISSN0006-8241 (print)
2311-9284 (web)
Links

Description

The journal is produced yearly, but articles are published on-line continually. When the journal was renamed in 2014, as well as broadening the scope it was made open access and its contents made freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. The entire contents back to the first issue are available on the journal's website.[3]

History

The journal was established in 1921, producing its first issue in 1922, as an in house journal of South Africa's National Botanical Institute. The journal was formally known by the name Bothalia alone, from 1922 to 2014 when the title was expanded to better reflect the role of the South African National Biodiversity Institute.[4]

In 2004 the National Botanical Institute was absorbed into a broader configuration, the South African National Biodiversity Institute, by the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act. The journal was named after the first Prime Minister of South Africa Louis Botha who was Minister of Agriculture from 1910 to 1913.[3]

References
  1. SANBI 2016.
  2. "Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2017.
  3. Bothalia 2016.
  4. SANBI 2016, The journal Bothalia changes to African Biodiversity & Conservation Feb 2014

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