Overview
Insectes Sociaux is a journal dedicated to the biology and evolution of social insects and other Arthropods.
- The official journal of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects
- Covers ecology, ethology, morphology, systematics, population genetics, and reproduction among others.
- Publishes original research papers, reviews, and short communications.
- 90% of authors who participated in a survey reported willingness to publish in the journal again.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Madeleine Beekman
- Impact factor
- 1.3 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 1.4 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 6 days
- Downloads
- 172,110 (2023)
Societies and partnerships
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Special Issue: Foraging behaviours of ants
We invite all scientists working on behaviours associated with foraging in ants to contribute to this Special Issue and will aim to balance the special issue in regards to papers that address mechanisms, development, function and evolution about ant foraging.
Submissions close: 31 July 2025
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Call For Papers: Special Issue on “The overlooked biodiversity of ant associates”
This special issue welcomes reviews and articles highlighting the important role of ants as a source of biodiversity for a wide range of associated organisms (other than ants), and how nest micro-habitats and/or ant behavior promote this biodiversity.
Submissions open: 1 September 2023
Submissions close: 15 May 2024
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Special Issue: Sociable arthropods: Broadening conceptions about social insects
This Special Issue welcomes reviews and articles highlighting how and why our knowledge of social arthropods with different life histories and origins of sociality.
Submissions open: 27 March 2023
Submissions close: 1 December 2023 -
Call for Review Article Proposals
Insectes Sociaux is welcoming submissions of new review articles and invites authors to submit their proposal topic for consideration. Find out more.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1420-9098
- Print ISSN
- 0020-1812
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Engineering Village – GEOBASE
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Meta
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Zoological Record
- Copyright information
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© International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI)