About the Boletin

Identification and Ownership

Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología [abbreviation Boln. Asoc. esp. Ent.; ISSN: 2792-2456 (online version); ISSN: 0210-8984 (print version)], is published by the Asociación española de Entomología.

Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología has been published in open access online since 2019. Open Access is a movement that promotes free and open access to scientific literature (in this case, to the papers published in this journal), encouraging its free availability on the Internet and allowing anyone to read, download, copy, print, search, link, distribute or any other legal use of it, without any financial, technical or any other type of barrier. The only restriction on distribution and reproduction is to give the author control over the integrity of their work (they are the ones who retain their rights, and who can deposit the published version in institutional and thematic repositories), and the right to be adequately recognized and cited, also indicating the journal (license Creative Commons CC BY 4.0). Therefore, this statement meets the DOAJ definition of open access.

Aims and scope

Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología publishes unpublished articles, notes, and bibliographic reviews on Entomology, with a special emphasis on the fauna of the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic and Macaronesian Islands. It also includes scientific news and announcements submitted by members, scientific organizations, etc.

History and periodicity

The first printed volume of the Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología appeared in 1977, and has been published continuously ever since, with one volume per year. Between 1977 and 1992, each volume consisted of a single issue (except in 1982, when two were published). Since 1993, two issues have been published annually (except in 1997, when three were published, and in 2003, when only one was published). Currently, one volume, divided into two issues, is published per year, which issues group together the papers that appear continuously published online (online first) as they are accepted and formatted, up to the date of each issue (June 30, December 30).

Indexing and quality indications

The journal is included in the Master Journal List by WOS (data bases Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record), Dialnet, EBSCO Publishing (Academic Search Ultimate and CAB Abstracts with Full Text CABI), ÍnDICES-CSIC, Google Scholar, Latindex, Scopus.

Metrics on the journal´s citations can be found at Scopus (indexed since 2020, values in 2023: CiteScore = 0,8; SRJ = 0,309; SNIP = 0392; Q4 Insect Science, Ecology, Food Science), dissemination databases are showed by MIAR.

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Policy of dissemination of the contents and bibliographies

A complete collection of the published issues (print version) is housed in the University of León Library. Twenty-seven other Spanish universities have partial collections of the same collection in their libraries, according to REBIUM.

The papers are available on the journal´s website in PDF format in Open Access under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

Papers published in the Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología have a persistent identifier (DOI), that also allows searching, reading, downloading, and reusing metadata (titles, authorship, ORCID identifiers, abstracts, location, publication dates, and bibliographic references) through Crossref. This also includes citation options in various standards (APA, Vancouver, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, MLA) and export to bibliographic managers (BibTex, RIS, JSON formats). The Spanish Entomology Association joined the Crossref platform in 2024. DOIs are assigned to new papers as they are accepted, and progressively assigned to papers published in previous years.

The Asociación española de Entomología recommends, promotes and facilitates the dissemination of published works on social networks, and in fact disseminates them through its official profile.