Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae is a peer-reviewed

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 scientific journal

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 publishing original research studies in the fields of animal taxonomy

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, systematics

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, biogeography

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, and ecology

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. It was established in 1954 under the title Acta Zoologica Hungarica (1984–1993). It is indexed in the Journal Citation Reports

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  with a 2008 impact factor

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 of 0.522. The journal is also indexed in BIOSIS, Biological Abstracts

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, Abstracts of Entomology, CAB Abstracts, Forest Science Database, Current Contents

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, Human Genome Abstracts, Science Citation Index

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, and The Zoological Record

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. The journal provides open access to all papers published since volume 48(2), 2002.