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The Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana (BSPI) is an International peer-reviewed journal founded in 1960 by Eugenia Montanaro Gallitelli, Professor of Paleontology at the University of Modena, Italy. The BSPI is the journal of the Società Paleontologica Italiana and covers a wide variety of paleontological subjects. Please click here to access the Società Paleontologica Italiana website of Paleoitalia.
The BSPI supports open access.
Aims and Scope
The BSPI welcomes original Research Articles of broad international interest dealing with all fields of paleontology, with special reference to systematics, paleoecology, biostratigraphy and paleoichnology. All taxonomic groups are treated. Review Articles are welcome, and may be solicited occasionally. Thematic Issues may be considered.
CiteScore 3.4
Impact Factor 1.3
Five-year Impact Factor 1.4
Time to First Decision 2 months
Review Time 5 months
Publication Time 8 months
Acceptance Rate 80%
The BSPI is in the Q2 Quartile of the SCImago Journal Rankings for Paleontology.
Journal information
Publishing formats: the BSPI is published both in digital and paper format.
ISSN 0375-7633 (print)
Publication frequency: three issues per year (June, September and December).
Peer Review model: this journal uses a single-blind peer review model. This means that the identity of the Authors is known to the peer Reviewers, but the identity of the peer Reviewers is not known to the Authors. All articles that are considered relevant for publication in the BSPI are reviewed by at least two Reviewers with no ties to the Authors. In addition, the article is reviewed by the journal’s Editors and the final decision regarding publication of the article is made by the Editor-in-Chief.
Digital archives: digital archives are available for the BSPI, providing instant online access to a repository of high-quality digitised historical content.
Indexed in:
SCOPUS (Elsevier); Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics); Biological Abstracts (Clarivate Analytics); BIOSIS Previews (Clarivate Analytics); Current Contents: Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (Clarivate Analytics).
Benefits to Authors
We provide many Author benefits, such as free PDFs and a liberal copyright policy. No publication fee is requested under 30 printed pages.
Open Access Option for Authors
The BSPI supports open access. Making an article open access increases its potential readership and enables authors to meet institutional and funder’s open access mandates where they apply. Authors of open access articles may immediately download, copy, and distribute the final PDF of their article and post it on a website, institutional repository or other free public server.
The Article Publishing Charge (APC) for open access in the BSPI is:
300 Euro (Society members)
500 Euro (non-members, their institutions or funders).
Once an article is accepted, the corresponding author will be offered to select open access under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and guided accordingly.
The authors will retain copyright and scholarly usage rights and the BSPI will be granted publishing and distribution rights.