Aquatic Insects is an international journal publishing original research on the systematics, biology, and ecology of aquatic and semi-aquatic insects.
The subject of the research is aquatic and semi-aquatic insects, comprising taxa of four primary orders, the Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera but also aquatic and semi-aquatic families of Hemiptera, Coleoptera, and Diptera, as well as specific representatives of Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera, and Neuroptera that occur in lotic and lentic habitats during part of their life cycle. Studies on other aquatic Hexapoda (i.e., Collembola) will be only accepted if space permits. Papers on other aquatic Arthropoda (e.g., Crustacea) will not be considered, except for those closely related to aquatic and semi-aquatic insects (e.g., water mites as insect parasites).
The topic of the research may include a wide range of biological fields. Taxonomic revisions and descriptions of individual species will be accepted especially if additional information is included on habitat preferences, species co-existing, behavior, phenology, collecting methods, etc., that are of general interest to an international readership. Descriptions based on single specimens are discouraged.
Detailed studies on morphology, physiology, behavior, and phenology of aquatic insects in all stadia of their life cycle are welcome as well as the papers with molecular and phylogenetic analyses, especially if they discuss evolutionary processes of the biological, ecological, and faunistic formation of the group.
In all kinds of freshwater environments, aquatic insects are usually the largest and most diverse group of organisms, by species and abundance, and are of paramount importance to the community structure and function, as well as serving as ecological indicators. Therefore, papers on different aspects of aquatic and semi-aquatic insect ecology will be considered, except for those that focus on applied aspects of environmental assessment (e.g., water quality). Papers that include autecological or synecological data will be preferred.
Purely faunistic studies and other papers of only regional interest will not be considered. To increase communication and information flow among the aquatic insect specialists, book reviews and obituaries will also be published.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized.
Journal metrics
Usage
11K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.5 (2023) Impact Factor
0.8 (2023) 5 year IF
2.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.625 (2023) SNIP
0.364 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
44 days avg. from submission to first
decision
48 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
59% acceptance rate
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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
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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.
Dr. Helena V. Shaverdo - Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria
Editorial Board:
T. Andersen - Bergen, Norway
T. Bo - Mongardino, Italy
D. E. Bowles - Springfield, MO, USA
G. W. Courtney - Ames, IA, USA
J. Damgaard - Copenhagen, Denmark
R. Edward DeWalt - Champaign, IL, USA
E. Domínguez - Tucuman, Argentina
T. Ditrich - České Budějovice, Czech Republic
T. Ekrem - Trondheim, Norway
S. Fenoglio - Vercelli, Italy
I. Gonçalves- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
M. Jäch - Wien, Austria
W. Mey - Berlin, Germany
F. de Moor - Grahamstown, South Africa
J. Pons - Illes Balears, Spain
M. Sartori - Lausanne, Switzerland
X. Tong - Guangzhou, China
D. Yee - Hattiesburg, MS, USA
Social Media Editor:
D. Yee - Hattiesburg, MS, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Aquatic Insects is currently abstracted and indexed in: Aluminium Industry Abstracts (Bethesda); Biological Abstracts®; BIOSIS Previews®; CAB International; Corrosion Abstracts (Bethesda); CSA Animal & Behaviour Abstracts; CSA Neuroscience Abstracts; Current Contents®/Agriculture, Biology and Environment Abstracts; EBSCO Databases;Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; FISHLIT; GEOBASE/Geo Abstracts; Research Aler®; Science Citation Index®; SciSearch®; SCOPUS and Zoological Record.
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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