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Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Oxford University Press · United States · Est. 1872

ISSN1548-8659

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.517

H-Indexi

170

SNIPi

0.777

Total Worksi

10,183

Total Citationsi

271,459

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.80

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Fisheries; Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1872

Annual Volume~ 63 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications10,183

Publisher OrgWiley

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Oxford University Press

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1548-8659

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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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

941

2019

666

2020

522

2021

241

2022

276

2023

105

2024

2025

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 ScienceQ2

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Fisheries

Scopus Categories

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsAquatic Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Fish Ecology and Management StudiesMarine and fisheries researchFish Biology and Ecology StudiesAquaculture Nutrition and GrowthAquatic Invertebrate Ecology and BehaviorHydrology and Sediment Transport ProcessesFish biology, ecology, and behaviorGenetic diversity and population structureReproductive biology and impacts on aquatic speciesWater Quality and Resources Studies

Frequently asked questions about Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Is Transactions of the American Fisheries Society a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Transactions of the American Fisheries Society: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, 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 Transactions of the American Fisheries Society?

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 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 0.80.

Is Transactions of the American Fisheries Society indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Transactions of the American Fisheries Society?