Updates regarding the Pachyderm journal, its staff, contributors, and their research.
We are delighted to announce the publication of the first Advance Article under Pachyderm's new rolling publication model for Volume 67 (2026).
Funk KR. et al.
Potential physiological costs of leadership in African elephants: elevated faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in a matriarch: https://pachydermjournal.org/index.php/pachyderm/article/view/1356
The Pachyderm Journal is inviting manuscripts on Asian rhinos
Read more about Call for Submissions on Asian rhinos Vol. 67 (2026)We are transitioning to rolling publication model from May 2026.
Read more about Important Update – From May, Pachyderm will transition to a rolling publication model.2026 Prize nominations
Nominations are now being welcomed for the 2026 Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society Prize.
The deadline for all nominations is 15 December 2025.
Please read the guidelines carefully before completing and submitting a nomination form.
If you have any queries about the 2026 Prize and making a nomination, please contact us via director@rgs.org
Read more about Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Prize nominations for 2026 are now openEsmond B Martin Royal Geographical prize winners for 2025 have been announced, ahead of the award ceremony on the 7 April and we are delighted to hear the news at Pachyderm
Read more about Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Dr Jake Wall have been awarded the Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society Prize for 2025Nominations for the 2025 Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society Prize are now open.
Read more about Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Prize nominations for 2025 are now openLC (Kees) Rookmaaker, with contributions by Joachim K Bautze and Kelly Enright
Read more about The Rhinoceros of South AsiaA call for rhino papers, abstracts proposals, and research, for the coming issue to be published in November 2024.
Read more about Call out for Rhino manuscripts for the coming issue, Vol. 65/2024Nominate now for the Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Prize
Read more about Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society Award nominationsRead more about The lasting legacy of Esmond Bradley Martin hosted by The Royal Geographical Society on Monday 3 April
Esmond was a Life Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and long-time supporter of the RGS. The RGS will be continuing Esmond's legacy by celebrating outstanding achievements in wildlife conservation and environmental research by others following in his footsteps with the awarding of the inaugural Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society Prize.
Read more about Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society Award and an evening to celebrate conservation achievementsVolume 63: appreciation of time given by our corps of volunteer reviewers
Read more about A note of thanks to our ReviewersSystem upgrade from version 3.2 to version 3.3 on Monday 5 December 2022
Read more about System upgradeIn response to the excess spam accounts on the new Pachyderm site we are cleaning the mailing list/users enrolled.
Read more about Pachyderm spam accountsELSEVIER: SCOPUS AND SCI
We would like to draw your attention to our partnership with Elsevier which includes coverage of Pachyderm titles in both SCOPUS and SCI
Scopus index Pachyderm:
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Elsevier products are used by leading research institutions, government organizations, decision-making bodies and corporate organizations around the world. Therefore, coverage of your title(s) in Elsevier products provides increased visibility and discoverability of your content.
ORCID IDs
We would like to begin collecting ORCID IDs from authors. If you are preparing to submit a manuscript to Pachyderm you can input it yourself when creating a new submission, or we can add it for you before publication. If you (as an author) don't already have an ORCID ID, you can register for one here.
Read more about Elsevier products: SCOPUS and SCI; Orcid IDs
Pachyderm update: January 2021
Welcome to the new Pachyderm home page.
The Editorial Board is pleased to announce to our readership that the next issue of Pachyderm, Vol. 62 has commenced production. If you are currently writing your MSc or PhD in relevant pachyderm fields, we invite you to consider publishing with us.
If you are interested in being a reviewer, please register on http://pachydermjournal.org and also let Kees Rookmaaker (rhinorrc@gmail.com), Lydia Tiller (lydiatiller@gmail.com), or Suzannah Goss (pachydermeditor@gmail.com) know that you are interested in helping out. Your efforts really do contribute to keeping Pachyderm in high demand. Elephant related material to both Lydia and Suzannah, and rhino related material to Kees.
All past issues of Pachyderm remain accessible to the public in the Archive section.
Read more about Research, management, Field Notes, Reviews
We invite new readers to register to receive updates via email when a new issue is published. Our publication cycle is January-November.
Register nowPachyderm is a annual, international, and peer-reviewed journal that deals primarily with matters related to African elephant and African and Asian rhino conservation and management in the wild. It is also a platform for dissemination of information concerning the activities of the African Elephant, the African Rhino, and the Asian Rhino Specialist Groups of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC).
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. ISSN Online: 1683-5018. Images are used with kind permission from the photographer for non-exclusive world rights in the relevant volume, and credited with the photographer's name.
All articles published in Pachyderm are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License unless explicitly mentioned otherwise.
