I wish to get your opinion about publishing single new species (with or without molecular data* /and single strain) or new records in an International Journal of repute.
Recently, we have seen many reputed journals are discouraging single new species publications.
Your observations and recommendations of best journals (not having page charges and possibly having some Impact Factor) for single new species and new records publications would help budding mycologists.
*Without molecular data meant for non-cultivable (non-culturable) fungi.
Dear, Rajeshkumar,
You can publish in Mycological Research which is the international research journal of the British Mycological Society. This journal publishes the original contributions in all fields of basic and applied research dealing with fungi and fungus-like organisms.
Also, you can publish in Mycoscience, it's an English-language journal of the Mycological Society of Japan and it's a famous journal in the field of fungi with an impact factor of 1.172 as I think.
Mycologia is another famous and important journal in this field. It's the official journal of the Mycological Society of America. So, it publishes researches on all aspects of fungi. You can publish your paper in it.
Aerobiologia international journal good for basic mycology and air fungi.
I recommend you publish in the journal of fungal biology by Elsevier.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
The percentage of papers describing single new species is maximum in mycotaxon as far as international journals are concerned. whereas it is “checklist”,which publishes single new record with data concening geographical distributon.
Submissions to major international journals, like those mentioned above, are heavily subscribed, so the chance of getting a minor paper published is small. Unless the new species is of great consequence or importance you may have more success by submitting to a less prestigious journal. You mention records – a journal from the area from which the species was found may be a good one to submit to; I have collected in Brazil, Iceland, Faroe Islands, France, and the Caribbean, as well as the UK and have had no difficulty in publishing records and descriptions in what might be called national or local journals of those countries. What sort of fungus it is [pathogen, of economic or academic interest, recycler, mycorrhizal etc.] could also have a bearing on which journal might be appropriate. The description of any new species is a positive contribution, and I have never heard of a manuscript being rejected because it contained a description of a single species.
I’ve noticed that, for many contributors to this forum, English is not the first language of the questioner. It is vital that any manuscript submitted to an English language journal should be well written in good English. I would not worry about impact factors, but I would avoid the large number of predatory journals that offer publication within 2-3 weeks [often for a large fee] https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/
There are number of quality Journals for publishing new taxa. Molecular sequencing is a must. Your can communinicate your manuscript to Mycotaxon, Fungal Diversity, FUSE, Nova Hedwigia, Sydowia., Indian Phytopathology, Kavaka being Transactions of Mycological Society of India, Indian Journal of Mycology and Plant Pathology, etc.
N. S. Atri
Addition to above, plant disease, journal of plant pathology publish new report of pathogens and they have high impact factors.
Dear Rajeshkumar K. C,
Every time the reviewer asked to add more data and reject my article, I faced a similar problem. Here I would like to suggest besides the above all mentioned journals, You can publish your work in the INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED AND PURE BIOLOGY- (An International, ISI Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journal Of Biological Sciences) (www.biology-journal.org).
We should be aware, that single-species studies have low citation potential and it is interesting only for very narrow audience of involved taxonomists. Considering mechanics of Impact Factor, it is true, that high impacted journals are discouraging and refusing to publish such studies and they keep their interest on papers aiming for broad audience. However, also those journals enabled a way to publish a new species in their series of comprehensive papers. You can submit your description there. However it come with a price, that you will be be only a co-author of the paper. Such a series are Fungal Planet Description Sheets (Persoonia), Fungal Biodiversity Profiles (Cryptogamie,Mycologie), Fungal Diversity Notes (Fungal Diversity) etc. Or you can still try publish your paper in some "less picky" journals such as FUSE, Mycotaxon, Phytotaxa or MycoKeys (Charged). For the new records there is a lot of local journals which can accept such studies e.g. for the Italy Italian Botanist, also there is Czech Mycology where you can publish well conducted studies from any area worldwide. There is also Kavaka, Turkish Botanical Journal and many more.
I would like also to emphasize, that despite of the plethora of possibilities, I believe, that in-depth conducted taxonomical study dealing with all members of the certain group is worth more than single-species papers. I think, we should primarily aim for the complex taxonomical study, while such papers speak whole story of the group.
Brazilian Journal of Botany
sydowia,
turkish Journal of botany/biology
Can journ of Micro
mycotaxon
Mycology : An International Journal on Fungal Biology
Nordic Journal of Botany
Mycoscience
New Zealand Journal of Botany
Unfortunately Brazilian Journal of Botany no longer accepts Mycology papers. Last update was in March 2021. Thank you, Dr Rajesh Jeewon for the recommendations!
Hi Rajeshkumar
You can publish new species in journal
" MycoKeys"
http://mycokeys.pensoft.net
Mycologia, Canadian Journal of Microbiology, Sydowia, Persoonia and Mycotaxon are also very good journals that deal with fungi and new species or new records. You can contact with them to publish your paper in any one of them.
You may try this journal: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem
There were many options to publish it either plant and fungi, journal of fungi , fungal diversity etc. and you can submit it in IDA approved culture collection, NAIMCC, ICAR-NBAIM is one such institute in India. The NAIMCC has been registered as an affiliate member of WFCC and follows the guidelines and principles of WFCC and OECD. https://nbaim.icar.gov.in/naimcc/