ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Journal scope and coverage

Published annually online, "Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies" is a scientific publication that aims at interdisciplinary research on the meanings attributed to animals. The way the knowledge in this area is coordinated and the reconstruction of modern nodal areas for thinking about the world of animals and humans involve the need to create an environment for the exchange of ideas that does not fit within a single domain. The journal constitutes a forum of expression for theoreticians and cultural historians as well as specialists in zoology and history of science. One of its founding hypotheses was that the perspective of animal studies allows for creating a direct link between worldview discussions and cultural changes in the human-animal relationship. This has already been confirmed by a variety of English-language studies; whereas this journal aims to reconstruct human and animal relations in Central and Eastern European countries as well as in other areas of culture. In subsequent publications, the proposed perspective is to present the hitherto unexplored changes of cultural and moral models that are present in the latest discussions on ecologically oriented humanities and its version “post.”

The specialist online journal is not only devoted to publishing articles on the new discipline of knowledge – zoophilology. It has been founded to meet contemporary expectations and requirements set by the representatives of “third culture” in animal studies, namely biohumanities and ecoposthumanism. The annual publication is part of the trend that can be observed in the developing young interdisciplinary fields under the label of “zoo,” i.e. zoopoetics, zoosemiotics, zooanthropology, zootheology, zoomusicology, zooethnology and even zoopharmacognosy, as well as any other new and related research directions, such as ecocritics, ecolinguistics or geopoetics.

Since the fifth edition, the information on the journal's website is fully published in two languages, Polish and English. We are currently in the process of updating the information in all the issues in both languages.

The journal is listed in the Index Copernicus Journal Master List with an impact factor ICV 2020 = 91.41  (https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/details?id=49747).

Since 2021, the journal is indexed in ERIH+ and DOAJ.

Since 2022, the journal is indexed in Scopus.

Open access policy

Our journal provides free access to its content in accordance with the principle that allowing research to be carried out in an unrestricted way affects the exchange of knowledge among people.

In the course of its development, the scientific journal "Zoophilologica" has changed its license from the more restrictive one, which was in force at the time of its creation, i.e. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, to the most open CC BY-SA 4.0. The first four issues (1/2015, 2/2016, 3/2017, 4/2018) were issued under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, and from the fifth issue (5/2019) the journal has been published under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.

As part of the unification of open access to all issues of the journal on the OJS website, the University of Silesia Press has also opened access to previous issues under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license, thus promoting the idea of open learning.

No. 2 (14) (2024)
Published: 2024-12-13


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Logo DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

Licence CC

Licencja CC BY-SA

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