Primates is a bimonthly peer-reviewedscientific journal of primatology, and an official journal of the Japan Monkey Center at Kyoto University.:584 It publishes original papers that cover all aspects of the study of primates. It was the first scientific journal focused exclusively on primates and remains the oldest, longest-running international primatology journal in the world.
The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, news and perspectives, and book reviews. It was established in 1957 by Kinji Imanishi. Although the first volume contained both articles in Japanese or English, subsequent volumes were published in English, thanks to a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.:593 It is now published by Springer and the current editor-in-chief is Masayuki Nakamichi (Osaka University).
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