About this journal
Aims and scope
Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture provides an important forum for the publication of up-to-date reviews covering a broad range of subject areas including management, aquaculture, taxonomy, behavior, stock identification, genetics, nutrition, and physiology. Issues concerning finfish and aquatic invertebrates prized for their economic or recreational importance, their value as indicators of environmental health, or their natural beauty are addressed. An important resource that keeps you apprised of the latest changes in the field, each issue of Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture presents useful information to fisheries and aquaculture scientists in academia, state and federal natural resources agencies, and the private sector.
The sheer amount of literature produced in fisheries and aquaculture often makes it difficult to identify new concepts and judge the significance of new information. Abstracting services and conventional review articles can be valuable, but they don’t assess the importance of the information or judge its reliability. One of the principal objectives of Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture is to make these assessments and judgments. The journal publishes only those critical reviews that present the latest, most significant developments in the field.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 129K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 6.4 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 9.8 (2023) 5 year IF
- 25.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 3.654 (2023) SNIP
- 2.085 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor
Sandra E. Shumway
University of Connecticut
Groton, Connecticut
[email protected]
Editorial Advisory Board
Frank Asche - University of Florida, FL
Peter Auster - University of Connecticut & Mystic Aquarium, Groton CT
Claude E. Boyd -Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquaculture, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Alejandro H. Buschmann - Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile
Arun K. Dhar – University of Arizona, AZ
Kevin Fitzsimmons – University of Arizona, AZ
Ronald Hardy – University of Idaho, ID
John Hargreaves – World Aquaculture Society, TX
Thomas Hecht – Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, Advance Africa, South Africa
Joan Holt – University of Texas, TX
Michel J. Kaiser – Heriot-Watt University School, UK
John Kraeuter – Rutgers University, NJ
Stephen Mayfield – SARDI Aquatic Sciences, Australia
Mary J. Nickum – World Aquaculture Society, AZ
G. Jay Parsons – Agriculture and Agrifoods, Canada
Will Patterson – University of Florida, FL
Einar Ringø – University of Norway, Norway
Gianluca Sara – University of Palermo, Italy
Patrick Sorgeloos – Artemia Research Center, Belgium
Kevin Stokesbury – University of Massachusetts, MA
Albert G. J. Tacon – Aquahana LLC, HI
Wagner Valenti – Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
Johan Verreth – Wageningen University, Netherlands
Abstracting and indexing
Reviews in Fisheries Science is indexed in Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
Open access
Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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4 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture (2014 - current)
Formerly known as
- Reviews in Fisheries Science (1993 - 2013)
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