Welcome to the first issue of Ornithology. While the title is new, this issue opens the 138th volume of an unbroken record of peer-reviewed, ornithological research that extends from The Auk’s first volume in 1884 (Figure 1) and, ultimately, from the 8 volumes of the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, started in 1876 (Allen et al. 1883). The new title is part of a long-term effort to increase the quality and international stature of the American Ornithological Society’s publications. The Auk became The Auk: Ornithological Advances in 2014 to emphasize its revised focus on basic science (Hauber 2014). However, “Ornithological Advances” was not officially registered as part of the title and was rarely included in the journal’s spoken or written name, even in bibliographies. In 2019, the American Ornithological Society embarked on a formal evaluation of its 2 journals in the context of rapid changes in scientific publishing. The committee report recommended new titles for The Auk and The Condor that clearly reflected their different focal areas. Subsequently, results from a membership survey showed that nearly two-thirds of respondents supported renaming this journal Ornithology (Beissinger et al. 2020). The title change was approved by the Society’s elected Council in June 2020 and finalized with a Fellows vote in August 2020.

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鸟类学的创刊号

欢迎观看第一期鸟类学。虽然标题是新的，但本期却打开了第138卷的完整记录，该记录是经过同行评审的鸟类学研究的完整记录，其始于1884年Auk的第一卷（图1），最后是《 Nuttall简报》的8卷鸟类学俱乐部，始于1876年（Allen et al。1883）。新标题是提高美国鸟类学会出版物质量和国际地位的长期努力的一部分。Auk成为The Auk：鸟类学的进步在2014年强调其对基础科学的修订重点（Hauber 2014）。但是，“鸟类学进展”并未正式注册为书名的一部分，即使在书目中，也很少包含在该杂志的口头或书面名称中。2019年，在科学出版业迅速变化的背景下，美国鸟类学会开始对其2种期刊进行正式评估。委员会的报告推荐了The Auk和The Condor的新标题，这些标题清楚地反映了他们不同的重点领域。随后，会员调查的结果显示，将近三分之二的受访者支持对该杂志《鸟类学》进行更名。（Beissinger et al.2020）。标题变化，2020年6月被批准为协会理事会选举产生，并在2020年八月与院士投票最终确定。