Ostrich (journal)

Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology is a journal of African ornithology published by BirdLife South Africa, formerly the South African Ornithological Society, in association with the National Information Services Corporation (NISC) and Taylor and Francis. It contains papers on the birds of Africa and its islands, including peer-reviewed original scientific papers of 3000 to 5,000 words, short articles of up to 3000 words, perspectives, commentaries and reviews. Topics include behaviour, breeding, biology, conservation, ecology, migrations, movements and systematics.[1][2] This is a hybrid journal: offering open access publishing, but also following the standard publishing model without charges to authors.

Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology

Cover of the final issue of Ostrich for 2019
Discipline	Ornithology
Language	English
Edited by	Alan Tristram Kenneth Lee
Publication details
History	1930–present
Publisher	BirdLife South Africa, National Information Services Corporation, Taylor & Francis (South Africa)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Options available
Impact factor	0.628 (2019)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Ostrich
Indexing CODEN · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0030-6525 (print) 1727-947X (web)
Links
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The journal achieved its highest ever 5-year impact factor in 2019 of 0.813, and second highest impact factor rating: 0.628. The highest impact factor was 0.833 for 2016. The CiteScore has been a consistent 1.3 over the 2017-2019 period.

Previous editors include: Austin Roberts, R Bigalke, J Vincent, G.J. Broekhuysen, M.K. 'Bunty' Rowan, Gordon Maclean, Alan Kemp, Adrian Craig, Richard Dean, Ara Monadjem, Lizanne Roxburgh. The current Editor-in-Chief is Alan Lee as of 2016.[3]