期刊名称:AVIAN RESEARCH
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims and scope
Avian Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality research and review articles on all aspects of ornithology from all over the world. It aims to report the latest and most significant progress in ornithology and to encourage exchange of ideas among international ornithologists. As an Open Access journal, Avian Research provides a unique opportunity to publish high quality contents that will be internationally accessible to any reader at no cost.
Open access
All articles published by Avian Research are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.
As authors of articles published in Avian Research you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the BioMed Central license agreement.
For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BioMed Central can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.
Article-processing charges
The publication costs for Avian Research are covered by Beijing Forestry University, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.
Indexing services
All articles published in Avian Research are included in:
- DOAJ
- Science Citation Index Expanded
The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by BioMed Central on SpringerLink.
Avian Research has an Impact Factor of 0.375.
Peer-review policy
Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here.
Avian Research operates a single-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous. The benefit of single-blind peer review is that it is the traditional model of peer review that many reviewers are comfortable with, and it facilitates a dispassionate critique of a manuscript.
Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two or more experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates already published work, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication. The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with members of the Editorial Board.
Editorial policies
All manuscripts submitted to Avian Research should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.
Citing articles in Avian Research
Articles in Avian Research should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.
Article citations follow this format:
Authors: Title. Avian Res [year], [volume number]:[article number].
e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Avian Res 2009, 1:115.
refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Appeals and complaints
If you wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint you should, in the first instance, contact the Editor who will provide details of the journal's complaints procedure. For complaints that cannot be resolved with the Editor, the authors should contact the Publisher.
Why publish your article in Avian Research
High visibility
Avian Research's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.
Speed of publication
Avian Research offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF.
Flexibility
Online publication in Avian Research gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).
Promotion and press coverage
Articles published in Avian Research are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be highlighted on Avian Research’s pages and on the BioMed Central homepage.
In addition, articles published in Avian Research may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Avian Research. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here.
Copyright
As an author of an article published in Avian Research you retain the copyright of your article and you are free to reproduce and disseminate your work (for further details, see the BioMed Central license agreement).
For further information about the advantages of publishing in a journal from BioMed Central, please click here.
Instructions to Authors
Submission guidelines
Our 3-step submission process
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Before you submit
Now you’ve identified a journal to submit to, there are a few things you should be familiar with before you submit.
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Ready to submit
To give your manuscript the best chance of publication, follow these policies and formatting guidelines.
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Submit and promote
After acceptance, we provide support so your article gains maximum impact in the scientific community and beyond.
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief Guangmei Zheng, Beijing Normal University, China
Deputy Editors-in-Chief Per Alström, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden Ping Ding, Zhejiang University, China Fumin Lei, Institute of Zoology, CAS, China Yong Wang, Alabama A&M University, USA
Editorial Board Lei Cao, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, China Nikita S Chernetsov, Zoological Institute, RAS, Russia Anthony David Fox, Aarhus University, Denmark Rahul Kaul, Wildlife Trust of India, India Pavel Ktitorov, Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Jin-Won Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea Shou-Hsien Li, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Wei Liang, Hainan Normal University, China Huw Lloyd, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Xin Lu, Wuhan University, China Ming Ma, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, CAS, China Zhijun Ma, Fudan University, China Philip J.K McGowan, University of Newcastle, UK Frank R. Moore, University of Southern Mississippi, USA Anders Pape Møller, Université Paris-Sud, France Theunis Piersma, University of Groningen, Netherlands Martin Päckert, Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Germany Scott K. Robinson, University of Florida, USA Tommaso Savini King, Mongkuts University of Technology Thomburi, Thailand Lucia Liu Severinghaus, Research Center for Biodiversity, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Liying Su, International Crane Foundation, USA Yue-Hua Sun, Institute of Zoology, CAS, China Fugo Takasu, Nara Women's University, Japan Fucheng Zhang, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, China Zhengwang Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China Fasheng Zou, South China Institute of Endangered Animals, China
Managing Editor Pengjun Cheng, Beijing Forestry University, China
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