Caldasia

About the Journal

After 40 years as a bianual journal, beginning in 2022 Caldasia publish three issues per year, and will continue to be an open access journal of the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia published on a regular base since 1940.

The journal publishes original high impact contributions on the documentation, understanding, or conservation of biological diversity written in Spanish or English. The journal covers biodiversity topics in a wide sense and thus accepts papers on botany, zoology, ecology, biodiversity, biogeography, taxonomy, systematics, conservation, anthropology, and related disciplines. The journal publishes full papers, reviews or short communications preferably. The journal is completely electronic and preferentially publishes full scientific articles, review articles, and short communications. Caldasia charges no publication fees to authors.

Caldasia is classified by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development system (OECD) in the following categories: Large area: 1 natural sciences, Area: 1E Earth and environmental sciences, and 1F Biological sciences; Disciplines: 1E03 Paleontology, 1F10 Botany and plant Sciences, 1F11 Zoology, Ornithology, Entomology, Behavioral sciences, 1F12 Marine and freshwater biology, 1F13 Ecology, 1F14 biodiversity conservation, and 1F16 other biology fields.

During 2020 Caldasia had more than 240,000 downloads. In 2020 its impact factor was 0.562 according to Journal Citation Reports. In Publindex 2020 it was in category B.