Frontiers of Biogeography

Frontiers of Biogeography (FoB) is the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society (TIBS, biogeography.org), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, and public understanding, of the biogeographical sciences. TIBS launched FoB in 2009 to provide an independent forum for biogeographical science, with the academic standards expected of a journal operated by and for an academic society. It is published by Pensoft Publishers on behalf of the International Biogeography Society using the ARPHA Publishing platform.^[1] The current Editor-in-Chief is Robert J. Whittaker.^[2]

Frontiers of Biogeography

Discipline	Biogeography
Language	English
Edited by	Robert Whittaker
Publication details
History	2009–present
Publisher	Pensoft Publishers
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution License
Impact factor	2.5 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Front. Biogeogr.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1948-6596
Links
Journal homepage

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) amongst over 60 scientific literature databases. In 2025, it received its inaugural Journal Impact Factor of 2.5,^[3] placing the journal in the Q2 of both the Ecology and Physical Geography categories.