Oikos (journal)

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Oikos

Discipline	Ecology
Language	English
Edited by	Per Lundberg
Publication details
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell (Denmark)
Publication history	Since 1949
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	3.381 (2006)
Indexing
ISSN	0030-1299
Links
Journal homepage

Oikos is a monthly scientific journal published by the Nordic Society Oikos in the field of ecology.

Oikos is published in collaboration with Ecography, Lindbergia, the Journal of Avian Biology, and with the monograph series Ecological Bulletins.

The journal impact factor of Oikos is c. 3.381 (2006). The eigenfactor is 0.054 (2006), making the journal number 11 in the Ecology and Evolution category ^[1]

1 History
2 Per Brink Oikos Award
3 External links
4 Notes

[edit] History

In 1949, Oikos was founded together with the Nordic Society Oikos by a group of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish,Finnish and Icelandic ecologists. The purpose was to facilitate communication among scientists in the Nordic countries, which had been isolated from each other during the Second World War and to provide a vehicle for publishing in the growing field of ecology. The journal content should be unbiased with regard to taxonomic group. Later, during the 1970'es, the scope was narrowed to studies with relevance to the progress of theory in ecology. Simultaneously, the geographical spread of the authorship was widened. The sister journal Ecography was also established as an outlet for studies with a distinct spatial conponent.

From 1949 to 1977, the journal appeared with one volume partitioned into three issues per year. From 1977 to 1987, two volumes came out per year, and from 1987 three volumes. As a consequence of this expansion a permanent editorial office was set up at Lund University.

1949-1975 a number of Oikos Supplement volumes were published at irregular intervals.

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