About this journal
Aims and scope
Peer Review Policy: Two or more referees, an Associate Editor and the Editor-in-Chief usually review each manuscript. However, if a manuscript fails to meet the criteria and standards for Phycologia, it may be rejected without review. Referees evaluate the following: (1) international significance and scientific merit, (2) accuracy and logic, (3) clarity, conciseness, and organization, and (4) quality, value and integration of photographs, graphs, and tables. The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision for all submissions. Manuscripts must be prepared according to journal instructions.
Publication OfficeJournal metrics
Usage
- 75K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- 2.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.715 (2023) SNIP
- 0.431 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 7 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 61 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 26 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 46% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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
Officers for 2024 (with terms of the Board of Directors)
President (2022-2023): Olivier De Clerck, Phycology Research Group, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Vice-President/President-Elect (2022-2023): Olivier De Clerk, Phycology Research Group, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Past-President (2022-2023): Morgan L. Vis, Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
Secretary (2021-2023): H. Dail Laughinghouse IV, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center | Agronomy Department, University of Florida – IFAS, Davie (Ft. Lauderdale), FL, USA
Treasurer (2021-2023): Tim Nelson, Biology Department, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, USA
Other Members of the Executive Council
António José Calado (Editor-in-Chief, Phycologia 2021-2023): Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Marco Cantonati (2024-2026)
Pilar Diaz (2023-2025)
Aki Kato (2022-2024)
Lawrence Liao (2023-2025)
Nina Lundholm (2022-2024)
Milagrosa Martinez-Goss (2024-2026)
Orlando Necchi (2023-2025)
Conxi Rodriguez-Prieto (2022-2024)
Judy Sutherland (2024-2026)
Editor-in-Chief
Giuseppe Zuccarello, IOC Chair 2022-2025, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Associate Editors
Cyanobacteria, Freshwater Algae and Soil Algae
Prashant Singh, Department of Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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Nicole Pietrasiak, Plant and Environmental Sciences Dept., New Mexico State University, USA
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Jan Mareš, Biology Centre of the CAS, Czech Republic
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Freshwater Red Algal Systematics and Evolution
Orlando Necchi Jr., Zoology and Botany Dept., São Paulo State University, Brazil
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Dinoflagellate Systematics and Evolution; Harmful Algae
Albert Reñé, Institut de Ciències del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
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Stefano Accoroni, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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Emilio Soler Onis, University of Las Plamas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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Andreas Holzinger, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Botany, Austria
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Macroalgal Systematics and Evolution
Gavin Maneveldt, University of Western Cape, South Africa
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Shinya Uwai, Research Center for Inland Seas, Kobe University, Japan
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Viviana Peña, Dept. of Animal Biology, Vegetal Biology and Ecology, A Coruña University, Spain
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Showe-Mei Lin, Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan, ROC
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Frederik Leliaert, Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium
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Maria Beatriz B. de Barros Barreto, Departamento de Botânica, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Shinya Sato, Fukui Prefectural University, Obama, Japan
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Carlos E. Wetzel, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux
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Marine and Freshwater Ecology; Phytoplankton
Marie-Laure Guillemin, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, UACH, Valdivia, Chile
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Vera L.M. Huszar, Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Steven Dudgeon, California State University, Northridge, USA
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Physiology, Ecophysiology and Cell Biology
Elena Tarakhovskaya, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
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Eva Rothäusler, Centro de Investigaciones Costeras, Universidad de Atacama, Chile
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Andreas Holzinger, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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Manoj Kumar, Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre (UCMERC), Central Queensland University, Gladstone, Australia
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Applied Phycology
Marie Magnusson, University of Waikato, Tauranga, New Zealand
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Alexandra Campbell, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs. Queensland, Australia
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Abstracting and indexing
6 issues per year
Abstracted/indexed in: Phycologia is extensively indexed and abstracted, including in such databases as Science Citation Index Expanded, Web of Science, EBSCO, BIOBASE, Scopus, Gale, PubMed, OCLC, Ovid, and ProQuest.
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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Society information
The International Phycological Society founded in 1960, is dedicated to:
- The development of phycology;
- The distribution of phycological information; and,
- International cooperation among phycologists and phycological organizations.
Membership is open to all those interested in Phycology and the society’s journal, Phycologia, is part of the membership benefits.
Student members are encouraged to apply for Paul C. Silva Student Grant – for travel and research.
The Society organizes an International Phycological Congress(IPC) at 4-yearly intervals.
The Society has a number of award programs in memory of prominent members: Papenfuss Award, Christensen Prize, and Feldmann Fund.
The Society is administered by a Board of elected members,chaired by a President, who is appointed by the Board.
The Society is incorporated in the State of California as a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation with Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws designed to protect its nonprofit status.
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