Founded in 1953, Avocetta has been regularly published since 1978 by the CISO (Centro Italiano Studi Ornitologici). Avocetta does not charge publication fees to authors and is therefore a “diamond open-access” journal.
Since 2022, the journal is published exclusively online to guarantee the fastest editorial process and worldwide accessibility. In 2023, we opted for continuous publishing to further fasten the availability of accepted manuscripts.
As an open-access journal, AVOCETTA provides a unique opportunity to publish high-quality contents that will be internationally accessible to any reader at no cost.
We trust in open-access science: authors publishing with Avocetta retain the copyright to their work, under the Common-Creative Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license.
The use of this non-restrictive licence lists Avocetta among the most open ornithological journals worldwide.
Authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge for publishing.
AVOCETTA is indexed in :
SCOPUS (currently Q3 of the subject area category ‘Animal Science and Zoology’),
Zoological Record, BIOSIS Citation Index, Google Scholar
and in the DOAJ repository of open-access journals
since 2024, Avocetta has been accepted in the Free Journal Network
Current citation scores for Avocetta as calculated by SCOPUS (updated August 2024):
NOTE: being indexed in SCOPUS, publications in AVOCETTA contribute to the Indicators for Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN)
A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) will be assigned to each paper or short note accepted for publishing in AVOCETTA.
The Editorial Board guarantee a fast, but rigorous, peer-review process (about 28 days).
Once accepted the article will be immediately published online as an ‘early view’ paper with an assigned DOI.
ISSN: 2420-9589 (Online) ISSN: 0404-4266 (Print)
AVOCETTA is a journal edited by the C.I.S.O. (Centro Italiano Studi Ornitologici – Italian Centre for Ornithological Studies) see https://www.ciso-coi.it/
The association CISO is based at the University of Palermo, Sicily, Italy:
Associazione Centro Italiano Studi Ornitologici ONLUS.
Fiscal/Tax Code (C.F.): 97277440828
Dipartimento SAF (Scienze Agrarie e Forestali) dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo
Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 4 – Ingresso H, 90128 Palermo
Current Elected President of the CISO: Prof. Maurizio Sarà, University of Palermo