The use of the 'integrative approach' to classification of organisms since its formal establishing in 2005 has became a recurrent theme of zoosystematics. A bibliometric survey of the publications on integrative taxonomy of animals, which is aimed at exploring the most popular areas of research and characterizing the practical systematists' attitudes to this new approach, is presented. An analysis of 582 papers, appeared between 2005 and 2017 in journals indexed by Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection, has illustrated the gradual growth of popularity of the integrative taxonomy as well as some biases in representation of higher taxa in 'integrated' studies. It has been shown that the 'integrative' papers have more chances to appear in a top-ranking journal and gain relatively more citations as compared with non-integrative ones. The obtained results are discussed in a context of the 'taxonomic impediment' problem thought to be a consequence of the institutional crisis of traditional taxonomy, which is vividly debated during last decades. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.