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North American Journal of Fisheries Management is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0275-5947Verify ISSN ↗1548-8675Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 322 / 736 | 56th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 234 / 491 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 124 / 259 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 242 / 432 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
North American Journal of Fisheries Management is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 322 of 736), Q2 in Ecology (rank 234 of 491) and Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 124 of 259), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
North American Journal of Fisheries Management is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.479, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 87.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,500 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
North American Journal of Fisheries Management is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0275-5947 and its online ISSN is 1548-8675.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
North American Journal of Fisheries Management has an h-index of 115 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #337 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
North American Journal of Fisheries Management published 123 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 180. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (85.4%), Canada (10.8%) and Norway (0.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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