ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCH Zoological Research is recognized as a core journal by the Research Center of Chinese Science Evaluation (RCCSE) We are pleased to announce that Zoological Research (ZR) has been recognized as a core journal (level A, top 5%-20%) and ranked 15th among 78 biology academic journals, according to the “RCCSE Chinese Academic Journal Evaluation Report – Ranking List of Authoritative Journals and Core Journals”. This evaluation report was released by RCCSE in cooperation with the Library of Wuhan University and the Network of Science & Education Evaluation in China, and included a total of 6 201 academic journals, with ZR among the 1 572 selected core journals. The major evaluation indexes included total citations, two-year impact factors, immediacy index, ratio of funded papers, Web immediacy downloads, database indexing and quantitative assessment. 182 Science Press Zoological Research 36(4): 182, 2015