| Zootaxa | |
| Cover: | Zootaxa header.png |
| Editor: | Zhi-Qiang Zhang |
| Abbreviation: | Zootaxa |
| Publisher: | Magnolia Press |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Frequency: | Upon acceptance |
| History: | 2001–present |
| Openaccess: | Hybrid |
| Impact: | 1.091 |
| Impact-Year: | 2020 |
| Website: | http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ |
| Link1: | http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/content.html |
| Link1-Name: | Online access |
| Oclc: | 49030618 |
| Issn: | 1175-5326 |
| Eissn: | 1175-5334 |
Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists. It is published by Magnolia Press (Auckland, New Zealand). The journal was established by Zhi-Qiang Zhang in 2001 and new issues are published multiple times a week. From 2001 to 2020, more than 60,000 new species have been described in the journal accounting for around 25% of all new taxa indexed in The Zoological Record in the last few years.[1] Print and online versions are available.
The journal exhibited high levels of self-citation and its journal impact factor of 2019 was suspended from Journal Citation Reports in 2020, a sanction which hit 34 journals in total.[2] Biologist Ross Mounce noted that high levels of self-citation may be inevitable for a journal which publishes a large share of new species classification.[3] Later that year, this decision was reversed and it was admitted that levels of self-citation are appropriate considering the large proportion of papers from its field published by Zootaxa.[4]