海洋生物學出版來自海洋生物學所有領域的原創和國際上重要的貢獻。特別強調的是促進對海洋生命、組織-環境相互作用、有機體之間的相互作用和海洋生物圈功能的了解的文章。雖然原創性研究論文是海洋生物學的支柱，但只要原創性、重要性和質量標準與研究論文相同，方法論文、綜述和評論也受歡迎。具有特殊意義的文章作為重點文章發表。它們還附有編輯評論，并在社交媒體上得到推廣。特別感興趣的方面包括:海洋生物地球化學海洋種群和群落生態學海洋生態生理學海洋生物行為生物學海洋生物的發育和生命周期海洋生物的生物化學和生理學海洋生物進化海洋生物種群遺傳學海洋保護海洋生物學的技術發展不論在哪個領域，對有助于促進不斷增長的研究領域和(或)解決目前理論辯論的文章將給予優先考慮。確認的評論家審稿人對出版物的質量有很大的貢獻。因此，海洋生物學為已發表的文章提供了審稿人的認可。如果審稿人同意公開他們的身份，他們的名字將出現在發表文章的第一頁，在處理編輯的名字下面。然而，在整個審查期間，他們將保持匿名，不管他們是否愿意透露自己的身份。

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