A Bibliometric Study on Aquaculture and Fisheries Journals through Electronic Data Base in Directory of Open Access Journals

This paper examines the open access journals which are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. The objectives of this study are to analyse the open access journals on Fisheries and Aquaculture published in various years, disciplines, languages, countries and licence wise. The majority of journals are published by with United States, English being the most common communication language; the large number of journals are published in Aquaculture and fisheries disciplines, while very few journals are published in zoology, biology, ecology and environmental science disciplines respectively. It is found that the majority of journals were published during the year 2002–2011.