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Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 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 0002-8487Verify ISSN ↗1548-8659Verify 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 | 327 / 736 | 55th | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 126 / 259 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1957–present (also 1947–1955, 1945, 1937–1943, 1910–1935, 1896–1908, 1878–1894, 1872–1876), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 327 of 736) and Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 126 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 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 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.517, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 103.
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.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0002-8487 and its online ISSN is 1548-8659.
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.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society has an h-index of 170 and a 2-year mean of 1.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #336 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 133. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (81.6%), Canada (13.4%) and Sweden (1.3%). 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. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
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