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Editor-in-Chief
Prof Maarten Boersma, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Helgoland Marine Research
will cease to be published by BioMed Central as of December 31, 2021. BioMed Central will continue to host an archive of all articles previously published in the journal, and all articles published in HMAR will remain fully searchable via the BioMed Central website. If you would like to submit a manuscript, please consider submitting your work to one of Springer Nature’s many aquatic science publications
Articles
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Who lives where? Macrobenthic species distribution over sediment types and depth classes in the eastern North Sea
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In the Asia-Pacific region, the COI DNA test revealed the divergence of the bivalve mollusc Mactra chinensis into three species; can these species be distinguished using shell coloration and sperm structure?
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Living and dead foraminiferal assemblage from the supratidal sand Japsand, North Frisian Wadden Sea: distributional patterns and controlling factors
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Benthic community establishment on different concrete mixtures introduced to a German deep-water port
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Species richness and diversity across rocky intertidal elevation gradients in Helgoland: testing predictions from an environmental stress model
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Habitat-specific size structure variations in periwinkle populations (Littorina littorea) caused by biotic factors
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History of human settlement, cultural change and interference with the marine environment
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Problems in the assessment of heavy-metal levels in estuaries and the formation of a pollution index
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A brief history of aquatic resource use in medieval Europe
Aims and scope
Helgoland Marine Research is an open access, peer reviewed journal, publishing original research as well as reviews on all aspects of marine and brackish water ecosystems, with a focus on how organisms survive in, and interact with, their environment.
Society Information
Helgoland Marine Research is the official journal of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).
Editor-in-Chief
Maarten Boersma received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam, and his Habilitation from the University of Kiel. He has been at the Alfred Wegener Institute since 2001, and is currently a Professor of Experimental Coastal Ecology at the University of Bremen.
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97 days to first decision for all manuscripts
271 days from submission to acceptance
13 days from acceptance to publication
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1.208 - 2-year Impact Factor
1.560 - 5-year Impact Factor
0.818 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.623 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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