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Aquatic Living Resources warmly welcomes Nicolas Bez as new co-Editor-in-Chief
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- Published on 11 June 2025
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Nicolas Bez, a research scientist at the French Research Institute for Development (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - IRD) as new Editor-in-Chief of Aquatic Living Resources.
Aquatic Living Resources now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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- Published on 30 January 2023
We are pleased to announce that Aquatic Living Resources has just been accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) where it joins nearly 19 000 other high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. Indexation in the DOAJ means Aquatic Living Resources is in compliance with the open access policy of the DOAJ and meets all the strict criteria required for inclusion.
Diamond open access – an exciting new era for Aquatic Living Resources with Ifremer and IRD
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- Published on 29 November 2022
We are pleased to announce a new chapter in our longstanding partnership with Ifremer (French National Research Institute for Ocean Science) and IRD (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development). These two leading marine science organisations have committed to sponsoring Aquatic Living Resources (ALR) as a diamond open access journal with immediate effect. Diamond open access enables all papers to be freely available without any subscriptions or publication fees for authors thanks to the support of Ifremer and IRD. The ALR archives are also now freely available.
New CiteScore for Aquatic Living Resources shows a significant increase
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- Published on 24 June 2022
Following the release of the latest CiteScores by Scopus, we are pleased to report that the 2021 CiteScore for the Aquatic Living Resources (ALR) is 2.8 – an increase from 2.3 in 2020. It is now ranked 120/234 in Aquatic Science (Q3). We are happy to see the high-quality content published by ALR continuing to make an impact in the aquatic ecosystems community and look forward to continued growth following its transition to open access in 2022.
Special issue of Aquatic Living Resources on the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the fisheries and aquaculture food systems - Submission deadline extended to 28 February 2022
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- Published on 05 January 2022
We would like to remind colleagues of the opportunity to publish their work in a special issue of the journal Aquatic Living Resources on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on fisheries and aquaculture food systems.
Aquatic Living Resources joins the open access movement
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- Published on 22 December 2021
EDP Sciences is pleased to announce that Aquatic Living Resources (ALR) will publish all articles open access from January 2022. For authors who submit their papers before 28 February 2022, special article processing charges (APCs) waivers are offered so that submission will be free of charge. ALR has been published by EDP Sciences since 2015 - online only since 2016 - and has offered a popular ‘Open Access Option’. Now, with a move to full open access, its published research will be more accessible than ever.
2020 Journal Impact Factor: Another increase for ALR
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- Published on 26 July 2021
ALR – Aquatic Living Resources is pleased to share the good news that Journal Citation Reports™, released recently by Clarivate Analytics, show its 2020 Journal Impact Factor™ has increased by 84% from 1.026 to 1.885*. In addition, its current CiteScore is 2.3.
2019 Impact Factor: Another increase for Aquatic Living Resources
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- Published on 20 July 2020
Aquatic Living Resources (ALR) is pleased to share the good news that the Journal Citation Reports®, announced recently by Clarivate Analytics, show its Impact Factor has increased by almost 19% to 1.026* in 2019, with a CiteScore of 1.9. The journal received 1,504 article citations over the course of 2019 and is now ranked 37/53 in the Fisheries category.
Impact Factor 2018: Aquatic Living Resources on the rise!
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- Published on 30 September 2019
The latest Journal Citation Reports ® recently announced by Clarivate Analytics shows that Aquatic Living Resources' Impact Factor has increased to 0.864*. With 1,543 article citations in 2018, the journal’s Impact Factor has been rising continuously since 2016.
This confirms Aquatic Living Resources' position as an important voice in the discipline as it grows readership by publishing reviews, articles and short notes on all aspects of living resources in marine, brackish and freshwater environments.
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*2019 release of Journal Citation Reports®. Source: 2018 Web of Science Data
Restoring biodiversity by bringing back native European oysters and their rich species communities
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- Published on 06 June 2019
Oyster reefs are among the most endangered marine habitats on earth and restoration projects are gaining momentum in Europe.
The open access review article "The Native Oyster Restoration Alliance (NORA) and the Berlin Oyster Recommendation: Bringing back a key ecosystem engineer by developing and supporting best practice in Europe" presents relevant recommendations for the implementation of restoration measures and provides a synthesis of current European projects.
“The native European Oyster Ostrea edulis once covered vast areas of the open North Sea and other European coastal waters. As an ecosystem engineer it built biogenic reefs and played a key ecological role for the wider ecosystem by providing many essential ecosystem services.”
NORA represents nature conservation, science, oyster growers and other stakeholders and will facilitate knowledge exchange for the benefit of enhancing biodiversity. The network was established in 2017, during an international workshop on oyster restoration in Berlin. Its second conference was held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 21-23 May 2019 , with over 140 participants.
Aquatic Living Resources is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research papers, review articles and prospective notes dealing with all exploited (i.e. fished or farmed) living resources in marine, brackish and freshwater environments. Visit Aquatic Living Resources online to read the instructions for authors and submit your paper; sign up for email-alerts or to recommend the journal to a colleague.