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Our goal is to shed light on the impact of misuse of bibliometrics to the production in taxonomy. We explored JCR's metrics for 2010\u20132018 of 123 zoological journals publishing taxonomic studies.\n                    <jats:italic>Zootaxa<\/jats:italic>\n                    , with around 15 000 citations, received 311% more citations than the second most cited journal, and shows higher levels of self-citations than similar journals. We consider\n                    <jats:italic>Zootaxa<\/jats:italic>\n                    's scope and the fact that it is a mega-journal are insufficient to explain its high level of self-citation. Instead, this result is related to the \u2018\n                    <jats:italic>Zootaxa<\/jats:italic>\n                    phenomenon', a sociological bias that includes visibility and potentially harmful misconceptions that portray the journal as the only one that publishes taxonomic studies. Menaces to taxonomy come from many sources and the low bibliometric indexes, including JIF, are only one factor among a range of threats. 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