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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Maarten Boersma, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany

Field Editors
Gunnar Gerdts, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Luis Gimenez, Bangor University, United Kingdom
Jörg Hardege, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Thomas Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Arne Malzahn, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Norway
Paul J. Somerfield, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom
Martin Thiel, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
Florian Weinberger, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

Advisory Board
Hans-Uwe Dahms, Seoul, South Korea
Xavier de Montaudouin, Bordeaux, France

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact
    2.217 - 2-year Impact Factor (2021)
    2.056 - 5-year Impact Factor (2021)
    0.818 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
    0.623 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

    Speed
    137 days to first decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    124 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only (Median)

    Usage 
    459,529 downloads (2021)
    154 Altmetric mentions (2021)