"With the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal, can cryptozoology emerge
from the shadows to be taken seriously by the mainstream scientific
community?" asks
Since the demise of the journal Cryptozoology in 1996, there
has been no peer-reviewed English-language periodical for the
controversial field, which studies animals known from anecdote,
folklore, or fragmentary physical evidence, but not yet authenticated
with actual specimens. So when the U.K.–based Centre for Fortean Zoology
(CFZ) approached popular cryptozoology writer Karl Shuker about
launching a new journal, he was happy to oblige.
“I felt it imperative that a journal of this nature should exist again
as a platform for formal scientific cryptozoological research and
reviews of past cases that mainstream journals may not be willing to
consider,” says Shuker, who has a PhD in zoology and comparative
physiology from the University of Birmingham, U.K. Having assembled a
panel of reviewers who then pored over the first batch of submissions,
the CFZ and Shuker published the first issue of The Journal of Cryptozoology
in October 2012. Editor-in-chief Shuker insists that all articles are
subjected to the “same level of rigorous peer-review evaluations as [in]
any mainstream journal.”
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