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Fishery Bulletin

US National Marine Fisheries Services · United States · Est. 1881

ISSN0090-0656eISSN1937-4518
SJR Q3WOS SCIEScopus / SJRDOAJOpen Access
Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field
Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.
Q3
SJR · Scopus
Top 75% in field
Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ
SJR Scorei
0.301
H-Indexi
52
SNIPi
0.475
Total Worksi
867
Total Citationsi
12,922
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.34
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

It carries original research and interpretative articles on all fields of marine fisheries science and marine biology. Topics include fisheries science, biology, engineering, and economics, commercial and recreational fisheries, and fisheries developments inside and outside the United States. Articles on aquaculture or freshwater species typically will not be considered, unless there is a connection to marine environments or fisheries.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published1881
Frequencyquarterly
StatusActive
Total Publications867
Publisher OrgNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access
Peer ReviewDouble-blind
OA LicensePublisher's own license
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes
Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

9/11 · 82%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
US National Marine Fisheries Services
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
0090-0656 / 1937-4518
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus, DOAJ
Peer review process documented?
Double-blind
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
Yes
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
DOAJ verified
Primary language documented?
English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published
Citations received
40
231
2019
77
269
2020
55
98
2021
88
71
2022
42
44
2023
38
23
2024
48
7
2025
27
18
2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Aquatic ScienceQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Fisheries

Scopus Categories

Aquatic Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Marine and fisheries researchFish Ecology and Management StudiesMarine animal studies overviewIchthyology and Marine BiologyFish Biology and Ecology Studies

Frequently asked questions about Fishery Bulletin

Is Fishery Bulletin a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Fishery Bulletin: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Fishery Bulletin?

Fishery Bulletin is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.34.

Is Fishery Bulletin indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Fishery Bulletin is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Fishery Bulletin?

It carries original research and interpretative articles on all fields of marine fisheries science and marine biology. Topics include fisheries science, biology, engineering, and economics, commercial and recreational fisheries, and fisheries developments inside and outside the United States. Articles on aquaculture or freshwater species typically will not be considered, unless there is a connection to marine environments or fisheries.

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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref