Palaeoworld

Palaeoworld is a peer-reviewed academic journal with a focus on palaeontology and stratigraphy research in and around China.[3] It was founded in 1991 by the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS).[4] The journal has been published quarterly since 2006; prior to 2006, it did not adhere to a fixed publication schedule.[4]

Palaeoworld

Cover of volume 25, issue 2 (June 2016). The theme of the issue is the systematics and biodiversity of Lagerstätten.
Discipline	Paleontology Stratigraphy
Language	Chinese English
Edited by	Editors-in-chief Shuzhong Shen Norman MacLeod Associate editors Jin Meng Yue Wang
Publication details
History	1991–present
Publisher	Elsevier, on behalf of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (China)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Hybrid[1]
Impact factor	0.939[2] (2015)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Palaeoworld
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ISSN	1871-174X (print) 1875-5887 (web)
LCCN	2007202708
OCLC no.	73667170
Links
Palaeoworld at Elsevier.com Palaeoworld at ScienceDirect.com

The journal publishes articles from several specialised fields pertaining to palaeobiology and earth science, such as: fossil taxonomy; biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and chronostratigraphy; evolutionary biology; evolutionary ecology; palaeoecology; palaeoclimatology; and molecular palaeontology.[3]

Its editors-in-chief are Shuzhong Shen of the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy at NIGPAS, and Norman MacLeod of the Natural History Museum, London.[5]