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Frontiers of Biogeography (FoB) is the scientific journal of the International Biogeography Society (TIBS, www.biogeography.org), a not-for-profit, scholarly organization dedicated to promotion of and public understanding of the biogeographical sciences. T IBS launched FoB to provide an independent forum for biogeographical science, with the academic standards expected of a journal operated by and for an academic society.

Note:  Frontiers of Biogeography migrated to a new publisher in 2024, and up to date information about the journal can be found at https://biogeography.pensoft.net/.

In a nutshell: Frontiers of Biogeography is an international peer review scientific journal, publishing scholarly articles by a globally diverse community of scientists, following a rigorous and constructive independent peer review process, overseen by a distinguished editorial board. 

Key points:

  • FoB offers a Gold-standard Open-Access peer review journal. It is operated on a not-for-profit basis and published via the eScholarship (University of California) platform.
  • FoB is on an enhanced platform that includes fully searchable text, social media interfaces, direct dissemination efforts to biogeographers, and greatly enhanced visibility through standard search engines.
  • FoB publishes original research articles, perspectives, reviews/syntheses, and book reviews.
  • FoB offers a rigorous, fast, flexible, and supportive peer review process and encourages submissions from all branches and schools of thought within biogeography.
  • All articles published are open-access. The publication costs per article are 180 USD for IBS members and 360 USD for non-members for articles submitted prior to June 20, 2024, increasing to 900 Euros after June 20, 2024 for newly submitted manuscripts as we are in the process of moving to a new platform (still a fraction of the costs for open-access in most journals).

  • Waivers for manuscripts are considered on request.  Requests for discounts on APC must be made at the point of submission of a new manuscript and will be evaluated against a set of criteria that will be provided in our new APC and discounts policy, which will be published shortly on our new platform.  In the meantime, authors are encouraged to contact the editorial office for further information.
  • Full intellectual property rights are maintained by the authors.
  • Frontiers of Biogeography is  published quarterly (in March, June, September and December) 
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