Emu (journal)

Emu, subtitled Austral Ornithology, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of BirdLife Australia (formerly the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union). The journal was established in 1901 and is the oldest ornithological journal published in Australia.^[1] The current editor-in-chief is Kate Buchanan (Deakin University). The journal was published quarterly for the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in print and online by CSIRO Publishing until 2016. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.895, ranking it 4th out of 22 journals in the category "Ornithology".^[2]

Emu

Discipline	Ornithology
Language	English
Publication details
History	1901–present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis on behalf of BirdLife Australia (Australia)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.895 (2012)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Emu
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0158-4197 (print) 1448-5540 (web)
OCLC no.	1567848
Links
Journal homepage Journal at Taylor & Francis Online

See also

• List of ornithology journals

References

1. Marchant, S. (6 July 1972). "A critical history of 'Emu'". Emu. 72 (2): 51–69. doi:10.1071/mu972051. Retrieved 6 July 2023 – via publish.csiro.au.
2. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Ornithology". Web of Science. 2012 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2013.

Further reading

• Robin, Libby (2001). The flight of the emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology, 1901–2001. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 978-0-522-84987-5.

External links

Media related to The Emu - official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union at Wikimedia Commons