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Two ARPHA-Powered Journals Receive Their First Scopus CiteScores

Two ARPHA-powered have each received their first ever Scopus CiteScore, a milestone that reflects not only their growing scholarly impact, but also the role that robust, modern publishing infrastructure can play in helping journals gain visibility and recognition in the global academic community. 

The Scopus CiteScore, traditionally announced in June, reflects citation rates over the past four full calendar years; the 2025 score draws on data from 2022 to 2025. Scopus also maintains the CiteScoreTracker, offering a monthly update incorporating citation data from the ongoing year.

Caucasiana

Caucasiana has received an inaugural Scopus CiteScore of 1.7, marking a welcome milestone for this recently established journal.

Launched in 2022 through a collaboration between Ilia State University (Georgia) and Pensoft Publishers, Caucasiana is an international peer-reviewed, open-access, and free-of-charge online journal covering all research branches related to biodiversity in the Caucasus region and adjacent areas. The journal was established to widen and enhance biodiversity research and publishing in this poorly studied but richly biodiverse hotspot.

From its inception, the journal was built on the ARPHA Platform, giving it immediate access to a streamlined editorial workflow, wide indexation, and the infrastructure needed to grow its academic presence rapidly. 

Reflecting on the milestone, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Dr. Levan Mumladze shares: 

This is a remarkable achievement, and I was genuinely surprised that we managed to accomplish it in such a short time. Receiving our first Scopus metric has certainly boosted my motivation and confidence as Editor-in-Chief. This kind of recognition affirms that what we are doing is being done right – and that is a powerful motivator to press forward with even greater energy. I am confident that the progress we have made will translate into even stronger results.

Contributions to Entomology

Contributions to Entomology has received its first Scopus CiteScore of 1.1, ranking in Q2 for History and Philosophy of Science, placing it in the upper 60th percentile for that category.

With roots going back to 1951, when it was founded as Beiträge zur Entomologie by the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Contributions to Entomology has a long and distinguished history in entomological publishing. 

A peer-reviewed, open access journal of Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung and an official publication of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie (DGaaE), the journal has over the years published around 1,850 articles by 950 authors across six languages, covering insect systematics, taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography, faunistics, ecology, applied entomology, and the history of entomology. 

Publishing on ARPHA has brought this wealth of entomological knowledge into a modern, fully integrated publishing environment, maximising its discoverability and reach across more than 40 indexing services. 

Powered by ARPHA

Both journals are published on the ARPHA Platform, Pensoft’s self-developed end-to-end publishing solution that streamlines the entire editorial workflow –  from manuscript submission and peer review through to editing, publication, and archiving – ultimately making research easy for both people and machines to access, cite, and reuse.

ARPHA’s publishing services also include human-provided support and integrations with third-party providers, designed to maximise the reach and usability of scholarly knowledge. Both journals are archived in CLOCKSS, Zenodo, Portico, and Zendy, and indexed in more than 40 services, including Scopus, CrossRef, DOAJ, and ResearchGate.

The latest Scopus CiteScore and CiteScoreTracker are automatically displayed on each journal’s homepage and in its newsletter.

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Pensoft and ARPHA welcome three biodiversity-themed journals in their portfolio

The scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft and its self-developed publishing platform ARPHA welcome three journals to their distinguished and growing portfolio of biodiversity-themed journals. The international, peer-reviewed and open-access journals Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, Caucasiana and Zitteliana are now fully operable and open for submissions through their new websites and technologically advanced user interfaces.

By moving to ARPHA, the three scholarly outlets will not only revamp their websites and technological backbone, but will also take advantage from ARPHA’s signature fast-track, end-to-end publishing system, which is to benefit all journal users: authors, reviewers and editors alike. In addition, the journals will use all unique services offered by ARPHA, such as data publishing, linked data tables, semantic markup and enhancements, automated export of sub-article elements and data to aggregators, web-service integrations with over 40 world-class indexing and archiving databases, sub-article-level usage metrics, and more. Published articles are to be available in PDF, machine-readable JATS XML formats and semantically enriched HTML, so that they guarantee better reader experience to ensure they are easy to discover, access, cite and reuse.

Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria

Launched in 1970, Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria (AIeP) publishes research about all aspects of ichthyology and fisheries, concerning true fishes (fin-fishes), including taxonomy, biology, morphology, anatomy, physiology, pathology, parasitology, reproduction and zoogeography. To be accepted, manuscripts need to be based on original experimental data or experimental methods, or new analyses of already existing data. The journal stands against the publication of “isolated” research, linked neither to the “past” nor the “future” of science. Likewise, “salami science” is also discouraged. AIeP is indexed by all major indexers, including Web of Science and Scopus. The journal’s first Impact Factor was released in 2010, and currently stands at 0.629 (2019).

Caucasiana

As a successor of the Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology of the Georgian Academy of Science, the Caucasiana is to give new life to the historical, print-only zoological by becoming a full-fledged, exclusively digital scholarly journal, focused on the still poorly known biodiversity in the Caucasus region and its adjacent areas. Caucasiana‘s aim is to accumulate primary biodiversity data urgently needed to understand the big picture of the biodiversity in the area: from individuals to ecosystems. To support the mission of uncovering the secrets of the Caucasus, the journal operates a no-APCs policy.

While the journal will be considering all biodiversity-related studies, based on their merits and quality of research, Caucasiana places special attention to taxonomic inventories and systematics. Thereby, in addition to traditional research outputs, the journal also publishes data papers, annotated checklists, monographs and conference proceedings, making use of the suite of biodiversity data publishing innovations, tools and know-how available from Pensoft.

Zitelliana

In 2021, Zitelliana is celebrating its 50th anniversary in a brand new gear in an excellent example of tradition working perfectly together with innovation and modernity. Since its launch in 1961, Zitelliana, a scholarly journal devoted to all fields of paleontology and geobiology, and owned by the Bavarian State Collection of Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB), has changed several names (i.e. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie, Zitteliana A (Abhandlungen) and Zitteliana B (Mitteilungen)) and has extended its scope to cover research from outside Bavaria and adjacent regions or materials deposited in the SNSB’s collections.

Today, Zitteliana welcomes both modern and traditional research outputs, including palaeobiology, geobiology, palaeogenomics, biodiversity, stratigraphy, sedimentology, regional geology, systematics, phylogeny, and cross-disciplinary studies. Thanks to the support of the SNSB, authors in Zitteliana publish free of charge.

“At Pensoft, we take pride in our experience and achievements in the field of biodiversity research publishing and dissemination, so we’re particularly pleased to welcome these three wonderful journals and share our know-how with them at all levels: readership, editorship, publication and dissemination,” comments Prof. Lyubomir Penev, CEO and founder of Pensoft and ARPHA.

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