Journal of Avian Biology

Academic journal

*Journal of Avian Biology*
Publication details

Discipline	Ornithology
Language	English
Edited by	Staffan Bensch, Jan-Åke Nilsson
Former name(s)	Ornis Scandinavica
History	1970–present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Nordic Society Oikos
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	2.248 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Avian Biol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	JAVBE9
ISSN	0908-8857 (print) 1600-048X (web)
LCCN	94657491
OCLC no.	30066747
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The Journal of Avian Biology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of ornithology published by Wiley on behalf of the Nordic Society Oikos (NSO) in collaboration with Oikos (journal), Nordic Journal of Botany, Wildlife Biology, Lindbergia and Ecography.

The editors-in-chief are Staffan Bensch and Jan-Åke Nilsson. The journal was established in 1970 as Ornis Scandinavica and appeared quarterly. It obtained its current name in 1994, changed to bimonthly publication in 2004, continuous monthly publication in 2018, and back to bimonthly publication in 2022.

The Journal only publishes fully open access (since 2022).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.248, ranking it fifth out of 31 journals in the category "Ornithology".^[1]