Avian Research

《鸟类学研究（英文）》（Avian Research）（季刊）创刊于2010年，北京林业大学、中国动物学会鸟类学分会主办的学术期刊，以加强中国与世界的鸟类学学术交流，提高中国鸟类学的学术水平和国际影响。该刊将由北京林业大学和中国动物学会鸟类学分会共同主办，高等教育出版社出版。该刊为面向全球的英文学术期刊，主要发表经同行评议的研究论文、综述和研究简报等，收稿范围涵盖鸟类学所有研究方向。中国科学院院士郑光美先生担任该刊主编，编委会成员来自国内外各高校、学会及科研院所的知名学者。欢迎国内外从事鸟类学研究的专家学者积极投稿，创刊年将免收稿件评审费及版面费。主要栏目：研究论文、综述、研究简报。

• SCI 科学引文索引(美)(2017)
• CSCD 中国科学引文数据库（2017-2018年度）（含扩展版）

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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.

The journal is jointly sponsored by Beijing Forestry University and the China Ornithological Society.

Open access

All articles published by Avian Research are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers.

Authors of articles published in Avian Research are the copyright holders of their ar ticles, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.

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.

Coverage and indexing

Avian Research is now covered and indexed by:

• Science Citation Index Expanded

• Scopus

• Current Content - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences

• Zoological Record

• BIOSIS Previews

Portability of peer review

In order to support efficient and thorough peer review, we aim to reduce the number of times a manuscript is re-reviewed after rejection from Avian Research, thereby speeding up the publication process and reducing the burden on peer reviewers. Therefore, please note that, if a manuscript is not accepted for publication in Avian Research and the authors choose to submit a revised version to another BMC journal, we will pass the reviews on to the other journal’s editors at the authors’ request. We will reveal the reviewers’ names to the handling editor for editorial purposes unless reviewers let us know when they return their report that they do not wish us to share their report with another BMC journal.

Editorial policies

Any manuscript, or substantial parts of it, submitted to the journal must not be under consideration by any other journal. In general, the manuscript should not have already been published in any journal or other citable form, although it may have been deposited on a preprint server.

Authors are required to ensure that no material submitted as part of a manuscript infringes existing copyrights, or the rights of a third party.

Plagiarism detection

Avian Research’s publisher, BMC, part of Springer business, is a member of the Cross Check plagiarism detection initiative. In cases of suspected plagiarism Cross Check is available to the editors of Avian Research to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts by using the plagiarism detection tool i Thenticate. CrossCheck is a multi-publisher initiative allowing screening of published and submitted content for originality.

Citing articles in Avian Research

Articles in Avian Research should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Articles do not have page numbers for citation purposes; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. Avian Research [year], [volume number]:[article number].

e.g. Alström et al.: Integrative taxonomy of the Plainbacked Thrush (Zoothera mollissima) complex (Aves, Turdidae) reveals cryptic species, including a new species. Avian Research 2016, 7:1.

For details of how to prepare and submit a manuscript through the online submission system, please see the instructions for authors at http://avianres.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines.