Choosing a journal

A file with a decision tree that might help you choose the most suitable journal for publishing your research. Links to journals are included.

Choosing a journal

In this blog post, I provide a decision tree with that might help you choose the most suitable journal for publishing your research.
I’ll also share tips and links to get you started, focusing on journal scope, open access fees, impact factor, DOI, peer review process, and publication timelines.

I briefly share my own experiences. In addition, I offer a brief list of journals that publish ornithological research, complete with a map to guide your selection.

The goal is to be a guide for those looking to submit papers into an ornithological journals.

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Links to journals

Journal Link
Acta ornithologica https://bioone.org/journals/acta-ornithologica/current
Ardea https://bioone.org/journals/ardea
Ardeola https://www.ardeola.org/es/autores/
Austral ecology https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14429993
Avian Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/avian-research
Behavioural ecology and sociobiology https://link.springer.com/journal/265
Bird Conservation International https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bird-conservation-international
Bird study https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Ecology https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19399170
Ecology and Evolution https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20457758
Ecology letters https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14610248
Ecosphere https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/21508925
Emu https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/temu20
Ibis https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1474919x
Journal of Animal Ecology https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13652656
Journal of Avian Biology https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1600048x
Journal of Field Ornithology https://journal.afonet.org/
Journal of Ornithology https://link.springer.com/journal/10336
Journal of Sea Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-sea-research
Marine Biology https://link.springer.com/journal/227
Marine ecology https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14390485
Marine Ecology Progress Series https://www.int-res.com/journals/meps/meps-home/
Marine Ornithology http://www.marineornithology.org/
Movement ecology https://movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/about
Oecologia https://link.springer.com/journal/442
Oikos https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1600048x
Ornithologia Neotropical https://journals.sfu.ca/ornneo/index.php/ornneo/about/submissions
Ornithological applications https://academic.oup.com/condor
Ornithology https://academic.oup.com/auk
Ornithology research https://link.springer.com/journal/43388
Pacific Science https://bioone.org/journals/pacific-science
The Auk - Now Ornithology https://americanornithology.org/publications/ornithology/
The Condor - Now Ornithological applications https://americanornithology.org/publications/ornithological-applications/
Tropical Zoology https://www.pagepress.org/biology/index.php/tz
Waterbirds https://bioone.org/journals/waterbirds/scope-and-details
Wilson Journal of Ornithology https://wilsonsociety.org/pubs/wjo/