Pensoft Publishers

Scientific publishing house

Pensoft Publishers

Status| Active
Founded| 1992 (1992)
Founder| Lyubomir Penev, Sergei Golovatch
Country of origin| Bulgaria
Headquarters location| Sofia
Distribution| Worldwide
Publication types| Scientific journals and Books
Nonfiction topics| Taxonomy (biology), Biodiversity, Systematics, Entomology, Zoology, Botany, Ecology
Official website| www.pensoft.net

Pensoft Publishers (also known as: Pensoft) are a publisher of scientific literature based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Pensoft was founded in 1992, by two academics: Lyubomir Penev and Sergei Golovatch.[1] It has published over 1000 academic and professional books and currently publishes over 60 peer-reviewed open access scientific journals[2] including ZooKeys, PhytoKeys, Check List, Comparative Cytogenetics, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, and Zoosystematics and Evolution.

Pensoft is part of the open-access publishing movement. The Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) is used for all journal articles. In 2012, Pensoft established a partnership with Encyclopedia of Life called the EOL Open Access Support Project (EOASP) to financially support independent taxonomists, and taxonomists living in developing countries to publish their results in Pensoft journals.[3]

Pensoft were notably one of the first publishers to facilitate the publication of data papers[4][5] in collaboration with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The first data paper they published came out in 2011, published in the journal ZooKeys.[6][7]

Pensoft also published the first ever eukaryotic species description (Eupolybothrus cavernicolus) to combine transcriptomics, DNA barcoding, and micro-CT imaging data in the same paper,[8] in the Biodiversity Data Journal.[9][10]

## Awards

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In June 2016, one of Pensoft's journals called Research Ideas and Outcomes (short name: RIO Journal) won a Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Innovator Award for "promoting and expanding transparency in scientific communication".[11]

## List of journals

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See also: Category:Pensoft Publishers academic journals

* Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
* African Invertebrates
* Alpine Entomology (formerly Journal of the Swiss Entomological Society)
* ARPHA Conference Abstracts
* ARPHA Proceedings
* Biodiversity Data Journal
* Biodiversity Information Science and Standards (BISS)
* BioRisk
* Caucasiana
* Check List
* Comparative Cytogenetics
* Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
* Evolutionary Systematics
* Food Modeling Journal
* Fossil Record
* Herpetozoa
* Italian Botanist
* Journal of Hymenoptera Research
* Journal of Orthoptera Research
* Metabarcoding & Metagenomics
* MycoKeys
* Nature Conservation
* NeoBiota
* Neotropical Biology and Conservation
* Nota Lepidopterologica
* One Ecosystem
* Pharmacia
* PhytoKeys
* Plant Sociology
* Research Ideas and Outcomes
* Silva Balcanica
* Subterranean Biology
* Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa" (The Journal of "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History)
* Vegetation Classification and Survey
* Viticulture Data Journal
* Zitteliana
* ZooKeys
* Zoologia
* Zoosystematics and Evolution

## References

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1. ^ "About Pensoft". pensoft.net.
2. ^ "Browse Journals".
3. ^ Erwin, T.; Penev, L.; Stoev, P.; Georgiev, T. (2012). "Accelerating innovative publishing in taxonomy and systematics: 250 issues of ZooKeys". ZooKeys (251): 1–10\. Bibcode:2012ZooK..251....1E. doi:10.3897/zookeys.251.4516. PMC 3536320. PMID 23378804.
4. ^ Chavan, V.; Penev, L. (2011). "The data paper: A mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science". BMC Bioinformatics. 12 (Suppl 15): S2. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-S15-S2. PMC 3287445. PMID 22373175.
5. ^ "New incentive for biodiversity data publishing". EurekAlert!. 1 June 2011.
6. ^ Narwade, S.; Kalra, M.; Jagdish, R.; Varier, D.; Satpute, S.; Khan, N.; Talukdar, G.; Mathur, V.; Vasudevan, K.; Pundir, D. S.; Chavan, V.; Sood, R. (2011). "Literature based species occurrence data of birds of northeast India". ZooKeys (150): 407–417\. Bibcode:2011ZooK..150..407N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.150.2002. PMC 3234447. PMID 22207820.
7. ^ "First database-derived 'data paper' published in journal". EurekAlert!. 28 November 2011.
8. ^ Edmunds, S. C.; Hunter, C. I.; Smith, V.; Stoev, P.; Penev, L. (2013). "Biodiversity research in the "big data" era: Giga Science and Pensoft work together to publish the most data-rich species description". GigaScience. 2 (1): 14. doi:10.1186/2047-217X-2-14. PMC 4076509. PMID 24229463.
9. ^ "The cyber-centipede: From Linnaeus to big data".
10. ^ Stoev, P.; Komerički, A.; Akkari, N.; Liu, S.; Zhou, X.; Weigand, A. M.; Hostens, J.; Hunter, C. I.; Edmunds, S. C.; Porco, D.; Zapparoli, M.; Georgiev, T.; Mietchen, D.; Roberts, D.; Faulwetter, S.; Smith, V.; Penev, L. (2013). "Eupolybothrus cavernicolus Komerički & Stoev sp. N. (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae): The first eukaryotic species description combining transcriptomic, DNA barcoding and micro-CT imaging data". Biodiversity Data Journal. 1 (1): e1013. doi:10.3897/BDJ.1.e1013. PMC 3964625. PMID 24723752.
11. ^ "SPARC Innovator: RIO Journal".

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