Marine Ornithology

Marine Ornithology is a biannual open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published and supported by a partnership between the African, Australasian, Dutch, Japan and Pacific Seabird Groups.^[1][2] The editor-in-chief is David Ainley. The journal was originally published by John Cooper in November 1976 as a bulletin of the South African Seabird Group under the name The Cormorant.^[3] The journal's current title, Marine Ornithology, was obtained in 1990, following an expansion in scope to cover all seabirds, not only those in Africa.^[4]

Marine Ornithology

Discipline	Bird conservation
Language	English
Edited by	David Ainley
Publication details
History	1976–present
Frequency	Biannual
Open access	Yes
License	CC BY 4.0
Impact factor	0.6 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Mar. Ornithol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1018-3337 (print) 2074-1235 (web)
LCCN	95643474
Links
Journal homepage

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Directory of Open Access Journals^[5]
• Biological Abstracts^[6]
• BIOSIS Previews^[6]
• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences^[6]
• EBSCO databases^[7]
• Essential Science Indicators^[6]
• GEOBASE^[8]
• ProQuest databases^[7]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[6]
• Scopus^[9]
• The Zoological Record^[6]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 0.6.^[10]

See also

• List of ornithology journals