Biodiversity Data Journal

Aims & Scope

Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) is a community peer-reviewed, open access journal, designed to accelerate publishing, dissemination and sharing of biodiversity-related data of any kind.

All structural elements of the articles – text, morphological descriptions, occurrences, data tables, etc. – are treated and stored as data.

The journal publishes papers in biodiversity science containing taxonomic, floristic/faunistic, morphological, genomic, phylogenetic, ecological or environmental data on any taxon of any geological age from any part of the world.

BDJ aims at integrating data and narrative in the article content to the maximum extent possible.

Supplementary data files that underpin graphs, hypotheses and results should also be published with the article or deposited in trusted open access data repositories.

The journal provides rich biodiversity data import and export facilities through the ARPHA Writing Tool and Darwin Core Archives.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Web of Science

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• A global map of saltmarshes

  Citation: 350

  Authors: Chris, Lauren, Jan-Willem, Emma, Simon, Christoph, Damon, Naomi, Corinne, Mark, Steven

• Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web

  Citation: 266

  Authors: Yde, Melina, Verner, Per de Place, Wouter, Fedor, Nicolas, Claire, Przemek, Eduard, Gregor, Florian, Falko, Alexander, Günther, Anke, Christoph, Andreas, Andreas, Anton, Pavel, Lyubomir

• The Encyclopedia of Life v2: Providing Global Access to Knowledge About Life on Earth

  Citation: 174

  Authors: Cynthia S., Nathan, Patrick, Katja, Kristen, Lisa, Jennifer, Anthony, Jeremy, Marie, Jeffrey, Robert

• Testing the Global Malaise Trap Program – How well does the current barcode reference library identify flying insects in Germany?

  Citation: 109

  Authors: Matthias, Jerome, Axel, Gerhard, Wolfgang, Paul, Björn

• Automated assembly of a reference taxonomy for phylogenetic data synthesis

  Citation: 101

  Authors: Jonathan, Karen

• The Swedish Malaise Trap Project: A 15 Year Retrospective on a Countrywide Insect Inventory

  Citation: 101

  Authors: Dave, Emily, Mattias, Mathias, Fredrik

• Polytraits: A database on biological traits of marine polychaetes

  Citation: 92

  Authors: Sarah, Vasiliki, Christina, Nafsika, Kleoniki, Eva, Evangelos, Georgios, Katerina, Thanos, Lucia, Panayota, Christos

• Symbiota – A virtual platform for creating voucher-based biodiversity information communities

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Corinna, Edward, Nico

• A database of life-history traits of European amphibians

  Citation: 89

  Authors: Audrey, Sylvain, Olivier, Virginie, Jean, Dirk

• A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

  Citation: 83

  Authors: Ian, Rodolphe, Andreas, Chris, Ryan, Stefan, Liliana, Akito