ISSN 2336-3193 (Print)
ISSN 2336-3207 (Online)
Acta Musei Silesiae, Scientiae Naturales is an English-language international journal publishing original papers on various aspects of biology, biodiversity, biosystematics, phytogeography, molecular biology, evolution and ecology. The journal was established in 1951 and is published continuously - tree times a year - until today.
Why submit
The journal publishes news from the biological researches carried out (not only) in Central Europe. It is printed 3 times a year. Manuscripts that are positively evaluated are within 3-4 months published (online and in paper version). Color photographs and other graphic attachments are welcome.
Rejection Rate
- about 45%
Archiving
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Plagiarism Policy
The editorial board is participating in a growing community of Similarity Check System's users in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy. Similarity Check is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process.
Editor-in-Chief
Steve Marshall, University of Guelph, Canada
Deputy/ Managing Editor
Vitezslav Plasek, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Editors
Peter Adamík, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Šárka Cimalová, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Pavel Drozd, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Michal Hájek, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
Vladimír Hrazdil, Moravian Museum in Brno, Czech Republic
Wiesław Fałtynowicz, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Lenka Jarošová, Silesian Museum in Opava, Czech Republic
Jan Kučera, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Jindřich Roháček, Silesian Museum in Opava, Czech Republic
Blanka Shaw, Durham University, North Carolina, U.S.A
Adam Stebel, Medical Academy, Katowice, Poland
Vladimír Uvíra, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Michael von Tschirnhaus, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Jan Zapletal, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Jan Żarnowiec, ATH in Bielsko-Biala, Poland
Technical Editors
Vitezslav Plasek, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Contact
Contact SILESIAN MUSEUM IN OPAVA,
NADRAZNI OKRUH 31,
CZ- 746 01,
OPAVA,
TEL: +420 603 346 600
Managing Editor
Vitezslav.Plasek@osu.cz
Publisher
De Gruyter Poland
Bogumiła Zuga 32A Str.
01-811 Warsaw, Poland
T: +48 22 701 50 15
Acta Musei Silesiae, Scientiae Naturales is covered by the following services:
- AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library)
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- MyScienceWork
- Naver Academic
- Naviga (Softweco)
- ProQuest
- QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
- ReadCube
- SCILIT
- Semantic Scholar
- Sherpa/RoMEO
- TDNet
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
- WanFang Data
- Web of Science - Biological Abstracts
- Web of Science - BIOSIS Previews
- Web of Science - Zoological Record
- WorldCat (OCLC)
- X-MOL
The Acta Musei Silesiae, Scientiae Naturales publishes peer-reviewed, innovative, significant research of interest to a wide audience of biological scientists in all areas of biology, all levels of organization, and all groups of organisms. The journal requires authors to frame their research questions and discuss their results in terms of major questions of biology. All manuscripts are evaluated by members of the Editorial board to determine whether the paper should go forward for peer review. Papers sent out for review will, typically, be sent to two independent referees. After a successful review process that does not take longer than 3-4 weeks, the manuscript is accepted and printed within a maximum period of 3 months. Authors always receive PDF file, printed version of the journal and 40 reprints of the article. The main scientific articles (written in English) are published in both print and online versions. Short notes (in English or Czech language) are printed only in paper form. Manuscripts should be sent via e-mail: vitezslav.plasek@osu.cz. The journal Acta Musei Silesiae, Scientiae Naturales does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.
Open Access Statement
The journal is an Open Access journal that allows a free unlimited access to all its contents without any restrictions upon publication to all users.