
Academic Journal
Q1Cladistics
About Cladistics
Cladistics is a scholarly journal published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 2.836 and H-index of 113.
Coverage: 1985-2026. Research categories: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (Q1).
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Topics in published research
Evolution and Paleontology Studies; Genetic diversity and population structure; Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies; Plant Diversity and Evolution; Plant and animal studies; Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography.
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3,960.00 USD; 3,300.00 EUR; 2,640.00 GBP
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Phylogeny of Mastigitae sheds light on a hundred‐million‐year‐long morphological stasis of the extant genus Clidicus Laporte (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
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2026-09-28 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70068First genomic analysis of Platycopioida and phylogenomics across six copepod orders
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2026-09-23 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70069Larval character evolution in Holometabola (Insecta)
Rolf Georg Beutel, Jakub Goczał, Di Li
2026-09-23 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70067Issue Information
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70066Deep‐time evolution and biogeography of a transitional lacewing lineage with Gondwanan origin
Di Li, Michael Weingardt, Jörg U. Hammel, Chunpeng Xu et al.
2026-09-02 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70063Phylogenomic analysis of ultraconserved elements clarifies relationships and morphological evolution in Cryptoplacoidea (Mollusca: Polyplacophora)
Katarzyna Vončina, Zeyuan Chen, Enrico Schwabe, Anna K. Hundsdoerfer et al.
2026-08-27 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70039A revised classification system of the marronoid clade of spiders (Araneae), based on dense sampling phylogenomics and comparative morphology
Jonas O. Wolff, Michael B. J. Kelly, Franklyn Cala‐Riquelme, Jacob A. Gorneau et al.
2026-08-23 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70057Testing the morphology‐ and intuition‐based taxonomic hypotheses using integrative approach: unexpected discovery of triplet of sibling species within a widespread Eurasian butterfly, Hyponephele lycaon
Elena A. Pazhenkova, Vladimir A. Lukhtanov
2026-08-21 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70062Origin, evolution and transmission dynamics of Orthobunyavirus Oropoucheense
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2026-08-21 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70065From genomic conflict to ecological adaptation: reconstructing higher‐level phylogenetic relationships of water mites (Hydrachnidia) based on mitochondrial genomes
Ping Li, Hai‐Tao Li, Jian‐Jun Guo, Lang Liang et al.
2026-08-21 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70061Sequential evolution drives range expansion of Chinese caterpillar fungus across the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau
Wei Deng, Yongjie Zhang, Tongyao Liu, Meichun Xiang et al.
2026-08-21 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70064A new Cretaceous family illuminates the early evolutionary history of True Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinoidea)
Jialiang Zhuang, Lars Vilhelmsen, Qi Feng, Corentin Jouault et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70059Going deep: phylogenomic analyses incorporating museomic data reveal divergence and character evolution in Decapodiformes (Mollusca: Cephalopoda)
Yansong Wang, Yan Tang, Shan Huang, Sadie Mills et al.
2026-07-28 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70060Rampant hybridization underlies cytonuclear discordance and shallow plastid divergence in Juniperus (Cupressaceae)
Yujiao Zhang, Jialiang Li, Perla Farhat, Zhitong Han et al.
2026-07-28 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70058Issue Information
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70055Clues of ancient incomplete lineage sorting during bivalve evolution undermine support for Heterodonta
Alessandro Formaggioni, Takeshi Takeuchi, Mayuko Hamada, Kazuhiro Saito et al.
2026-07-18 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70056Traditional characters and Procrustes‐aligned landmark data: a sensitivity analysis in morphological data type weighting for phylogenetic analyses
Nicholas W. Post, Santiago A. Catalano, Sergio Almécija, Kelsey D. Pugh et al.
2026-07-09 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70053Phylogenetic and ecological duality in the otoliths of Sciaenidae
Dominique Mediodia, Roland B. Sookias, Valentin Fischer, Chien‐Hsiang Lin et al.
2026-07-08 · DOI: 10.1111/cla.70054Reviews
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