The Biological Bulletin

scientific journal
Periodical scientific_journal Q1954904
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Summary

The Biological Bulletin is a scientific journal[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of scientific journal entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Carl Richard Moore[3], Frank Rattray Lillie[4], Alfred C. Redfield[5]
  • Founder: Charles Otis Whitman[6], William Morton Wheeler[7]
  • Publisher: Marine Biological Laboratory[8], University of Chicago Press[9]
  • Place of publication: Woods Hole[10]
  • Commons category: The Biological bulletin[11]
  • Language of work or name: English[12]
  • Archives at: Portico[13]
  • Country of origin: United States[14]
  • Inception: January 1, 1897[15], 1899[16]
  • Official website: http://www.biolbull.org/[17], http://www.jstor.org/journals/00063185.html[18]
  • Main subject: biology[19]
  • Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level: 1[20]
  • Replaces: Zoölogical bulletin[21]
  • Title: Biological Bulletin[22], The biological bulletin[23]
  • Short name: Biol. bull.[24]
  • Different from: Russian Academy of Sciences. Biology Bulletin[25]
  • Author name string: Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)[26]
  • Indexed in bibliographic review: Scopus[27], Science Citation Index Expanded[28]

Why It Matters

The Biological Bulletin is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Marine Biological Laboratory. Retrieved . mbl.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . BFI 2012 journal list. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . mjl.clarivate.com. Retrieved . mjl.clarivate.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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