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Marine Biology

International Journal on Life in Oceans and Coastal Waters

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Marine Biology is an international journal publishing original contributions from all fields of marine biology.

  • Highlights research promoting understanding of life in the sea, organism-environment interactions, and marine biosphere functioning.
  • Welcomes method articles, reviews, comments, and highlight articles of exceptional significance.
  • Includes a diverse and international editorial board with expertise in many different specialties.
  • No page charges or color illustration charges, with an average online publication time of 20 days upon acceptance.

 

Editor-in-Chief
  • Ulrich Sommer PhD

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Journal Impact Factor
2.1 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
2.5 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
8 days
Downloads
1.2M (2025)

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Electronic ISSN
1432-1793
Print ISSN
0025-3162
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  8. CAB Abstracts
  9. CLOCKSS
  10. CNKI
  11. CNPIEC
  12. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  13. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  14. Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
  15. Dimensions
  16. EBSCO
  17. EMBiology
  18. Engineering Village – GEOBASE
  19. Gale
  20. Google Scholar
  21. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  22. Meta
  23. Naver
  24. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  25. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  26. Ovid Discovery
  27. Portico
  28. ProQuest
  29. SCImago
  30. SCOPUS
  31. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  32. TD Net Discovery Service
  33. Wanfang
  34. Zoological Record
  35. eLibrary.ru
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