title: Entomological journals and publishing in Japan.
abstract: Here I present an overview of entomological journals and publishing in Japan, thereby providing a convenient portal to the valuable scientific resources for the world's entomological researchers and scientific communities. Currently, except for several international journals published fully in English such asApplied Entomology and ZoologyandEntomological Science, many entomological and entomology-related journals in Japan are not indexed by major scientific databases like Web of Science, and therefore they are neither conveniently recognizable nor accessible for the world's entomological communities. However, I point out that many of the contents of such journals are freely available via Japan's public platforms for electronic scientific literature, Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-stage) or Citation Information by National Institute of Informatics (CiNii). Here I list 32 entomological and entomology-related societies and their 45 journals, the majority of which belong to either the Union of Japanese Societies for Insect Sciences (UJSIS), the Union of the Japanese Societies for Systematic Biology (UJSSB), the Union of Japanese Societies for Natural History (UJSNH), or the Union of Japanese Societies for Biological Science (UJSBS), with their respective URL and open-access availability.
authors: Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, 305-8566 Japan ; Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan ; Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305-8572 Japan.
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authors: Fukatsu
keywords: CiNii; Entomology; J-stage; Japan; Journal; Open-access; The Union of Japanese Societies for Biological Science; The Union of Japanese Societies for Insect Sciences; The Union of Japanese Societies for Natural History; The Union of the Japanese Societies for Systematic Biology