Cladistics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 publishing research in cladistics

Cladistics

Cladistics is a method of classifying species of organisms into groups called clades, which consist of an ancestor organism and all its descendants . For example, birds, dinosaurs, crocodiles, and all descendants of their most recent common ancestor form a clade...

. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Willi Hennig Society. Cladistics publishes papers

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 relevant to evolution

Evolution

Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

, systematics

Systematics

Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of terrestrial life, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees...

, and integrative biology. Papers of both a conceptual or philosophical

Philosophy of science

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 nature, discussions of methodology, empirical studies on taxonomic groups from animals to bacteria, and applications of systematics in disciplines such as genomics

Genomics

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 and paleontology

Paleontology

Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...

 are accepted. Five types of paper appear in the journal: review

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s, regular papers, forum papers, letters to the editor

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, and book review

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s. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

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 of 4.929, ranking it 7th out of 45 journals in the category "Evolutionary Biology". Its editor-in-chief is Dennis Wm. Stevenson.