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The Biological Bulletin

scientific journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ1954904 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Biological Bulletin is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of biology. The journal was established in 1897 as the Zoological Bulletin by Charles Otis Whitman and William Morton Wheeler. In 1899 the title was changed to The Biological Bulletin, and production was transferred to the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The current editor-in-chief is Kenneth M. Halanych.

The Biological Bulletin is indexed by several bibliographic services, including Index Medicus, MEDLINE, Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents, BIOBASE, and Geo Abstracts. Six issues are published per year and all content is made freely available one year after publication. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2021 impact score of: 1.932. The journal ranked #54 out of 110 in Marine & Freshwater Biology journals.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Biological Bulletin” as scientific journal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897, 1899, 2021—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1897-01-01, 1899—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Biological, Bulletin and scientific can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as scientific journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1954904. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1897, 1899 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Biological Bulletin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.