Journal of Fish Diseases

Journal of Fish Diseases covers disease in wild and cultured fish and shellfish, and Wiley puts it out twelve times a year for an international readership of fish pathologists.《鱼类疾病杂志》覆盖野生与养殖鱼类和贝类的疾病，由 Wiley 一年出版十二期，读者是各国鱼类病理学工作者。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3 with a five-year figure of 2.4, and the CiteScore on the publisher's page reads 4.5.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年影响因子 2.4，出版方页面上的 CiteScore 是 4.5。

Clarivate places it in three categories, at 28 of 63 in fisheries, 43 of 124 in marine and freshwater biology and 45 of 170 in veterinary sciences, all of them Q2.科睿唯安把它放进三个类目，渔业 63 种里第 28，海洋与淡水生物学 124 种里第 43，兽医科学 170 种里第 45，三个位次都落 Q2。

The 2026 volume is the 49th, and the publisher has announced that from the 2027 volume the journal will be online only.2026 年是第 49 卷，出版方已经宣布，从 2027 卷起刊物只出网络版。

Print copies after that date will come through a print-on-demand service rather than a press run.此后的纸本改由按需印刷服务提供，不再批量付印。

Scope

• The declared remit is all aspects of disease in both wild and cultured fish and shellfish, with no line drawn between the two.宗旨写的是野生与养殖鱼类和贝类疾病的各个方面，两类之间不划线。

• Host-pathogen relationships form the first named area, and studies of fish pathogens the second.宿主与病原的关系列为第一个方向，鱼类病原研究列为第二个。

• Pathophysiology and diagnostic methods follow, and the journal also lists therapy and epidemiology among its standing interests.接下来是病理生理与诊断方法，治疗与流行病学同样在常设方向之内。

• Descriptions of new diseases are accepted in their own right, which is unusual among veterinary journals tied to aquaculture.新疾病的描述可以独立成篇，这在依附水产养殖的兽医学刊物里并不多见。

• Papers that are mainly taxonomic and carry no focus on disease processes fall outside the scope, and the guide asks such authors to write to the editor before submitting.以分类为主而不管疾病过程的稿子不在范围内，须知请这类作者在投稿前先写信问主编。

• Research Articles make up the main track and follow the familiar sequence from abstract through methods and results to discussion.研究论文是主轨，结构照摘要，方法，结果，讨论的顺序排。

• A Review has the same skeleton but is expected to fix the present level of understanding and to point out where the field might go next.综述用同一副骨架，但要交代该领域当下的认识水平，并指出下一步可能的方向。

• Short Communications carry significant new data on a narrow problem and are capped at 1,500 words, which the guide presents as a route for findings that should not wait.短篇通讯报告狭窄问题上的重要新数据，篇幅上限 1500 词，须知把它说成给不宜久等的发现留的通道。

• Clinical Reports handle new conditions, better diagnosis and new treatments, and they use a summary plus headings chosen for the content.临床报告处理新病况，诊断改进与新疗法，形式上用一段概述加按内容自定的小标题。

• Book Reviews bypass the submission system entirely and go by email to the editor-in-chief.书评完全绕开投稿系统，直接发到主编邮箱。

• Abstracts stop at 200 words, keywords at six, and continuous line numbering is required throughout the manuscript.摘要不超过 200 词，关键词不超过 6 个，全稿必须连续编行号。

• British spelling is the house style, following the Concise Oxford Dictionary, though the production team will convert an accepted paper's spelling.行文用英式拼写，以《简明牛津词典》为准，不过录用稿的拼写在出版环节会统一转换。

• A cover letter is compulsory, and authors submit in free format, with formatting rules enforced only once a revision is invited.投稿信为必备项，初投可用自由格式，格式细则要到修回阶段才执行。

• One policy is specific to this field, since first reports of diseases of regulatory concern must already have been validated and announced through government channels before submission.还有一条规矩专属于这个领域，涉及监管关注疾病的首次报告，投稿前必须已经过官方渠道核实并公布。

• An ORCID identifier and a data availability statement are both required, and the journal expects data to be shared where it can be.ORCID 标识与数据可得性声明都是必填项，刊物也期望数据在可行时公开。

History

• The first volume is dated 1978, and the National Library of Medicine counts the run from that year with England as the country of publication.第 1 卷标的是 1978 年，美国国家医学图书馆从这一年起算，出版国记为英格兰。

• Blackwell Scientific Publications of Oxford brought out the early volumes, and that imprint is still the one attached to the journal's MEDLINE record.早期各卷由牛津的布莱克韦尔科学出版公司印行，这个出版方名字至今仍挂在该刊的 MEDLINE 记录上。

• Volume and year have tracked one to one for the whole run, so the 2026 volume is the 49th and the arithmetic is year minus 1977.卷号与年份一路一一对应，2026 年是第 49 卷，算法就是年份减 1977。

• Frequency moved to monthly with the 2002 volume, and the National Library records the earlier rhythm separately as a change point.刊期在 2002 卷起改为月刊，国家医学图书馆把更早的出版节奏单独记为一个变更点。

• MEDLINE took the title from volume 26, number 1 in January 2003, which is where the electronic index begins.MEDLINE 从 2003 年 1 月的第 26 卷第 1 期开始收录，电子索引由此起头。

• Index Medicus also carries the journal, so the paper index and the electronic ones overlap from 2003 onward.《医学索引》同样列了这本刊，2003 年之后纸本与电子两条索引重叠。

• Ownership passed into the Wiley group, and the publisher line on the current files reads John Wiley and Sons Ltd.刊物后来归入 Wiley 集团，现行版权的署名是 John Wiley and Sons Ltd。

• Impact factors over five years run 2.767 in 2021, 2.58 in 2022, 2.2 in both 2023 and 2024, then 2.3 in 2025.五年影响因子序列是 2021 年 2.767，2022 年 2.58，2023 与 2024 年同为 2.2，2025 年 2.3。

• With 6,642 total citations and a cited half-life of 8.9 years, the journal turns over its audience faster than the older titles in this batch.总被引 6642 次，引用半衰期 8.9 年，读者更新速度比本批里那些老刊快。

• Annual output is about 190 articles, the largest in this batch, and open access reaches 30.16 percent of the 2025 papers.年发文约 190 篇，是本批里产量最大的一本，2025 年的开放获取比例为 30.16%。

• The 2025 JCI is 0.88 at percentile 73.8, and the journal's five-year figure of 2.4 sits above its current one.2025 年 JCI 为 0.88，百分位 73.8，五年影响因子 2.4 高于当年值。

• Indexing reaches well beyond the biomedical core, with BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Scopus, Zoological Record and the agricultural subsets of ProQuest all covered.收录范围远不止生物医学核心，BIOSIS，CAB 文摘，Scopus，动物学记录以及 ProQuest 的农业子库都在其中。

• The switch to online-only from 2027 is framed by the publisher as an environmental measure, with the money saved going into digital development.2027 年起只出网络版，出版方把它说成环保举措，省下的钱投到数字业务上。

Editors

• David J. Speare holds the editor-in-chief post from the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada.主编 David J. Speare 来自加拿大爱德华王子岛大学的大西洋兽医学院。

• He trained as a veterinarian at Guelph, practised in Nova Scotia, then returned for a doctorate in veterinary science in comparative pathology.他在圭尔夫受兽医训练，在诺瓦斯科舍行医，之后回校读比较病理学的兽医科学博士。

• His research links basic biology with applied veterinary science on diseases of farmed species, and he joined the college faculty in 1991.他的研究把基础生物学与养殖物种疾病的临床应用接起来，1991 年起在该院任教。

• R. J. Roberts, a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, is listed as founding editor and consulting editor and works from Heron Associates in Stirling.R. J. Roberts 是爱丁堡皇家学会会士，名单上写作创刊编辑兼顾问编辑，办公地点在斯特灵的 Heron Associates。

• Three associate editors cover the main pathogen groups, beginning with Ruben Avendaño-Herrera at Andrés Bello University in Chile.三位副编辑分管主要病原类群，第一位是智利安德烈斯贝略大学的 Ruben Avendaño-Herrera。

• Avendaño-Herrera has described more than 20 new bacterial species, most of them from salmonid aquaculture, and works on vaccines and on validating antibiotic use.Avendaño-Herrera 描述过二十多个细菌新种，多数来自鲑科养殖，研究还涉及疫苗与抗生素使用的规范化。

• Barbara Nowak at the University of Tasmania leads an aquatic animal health group and is known for work on amoebic gill disease.塔斯马尼亚大学的 Barbara Nowak 主持一个水生动物健康团队，以阿米巴鳃病研究著称。

• Heike Schmidt-Posthaus at Bern runs the fish division of the Institute for Fish and Wildlife Health and heads Switzerland's reference laboratory for reportable fish and crayfish diseases.伯尔尼的 Heike Schmidt-Posthaus 主管鱼类与野生动物健康研究所的鱼类部门，并执掌瑞士鱼类与螯虾通报病参考实验室。

• Roughly thirty names fill the editorial board, and the listings run from Hanover and Copenhagen to Taipei, Nairobi and Kuala Lumpur.编委会约三十人，名单从汉诺威与哥本哈根一路铺到台北，内罗毕与吉隆坡。

• Several board members work at national institutes rather than universities, among them the Norwegian Veterinary Institute and the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute in China.不少编委供职于国立机构而非高校，挪威兽医研究所与中国黄海水产研究所都在其中。

• The editorial advisory board is currently being rebuilt, and the notice on the page invites interested researchers to write to the editorial office.编辑顾问委员会正在重组，页面上的告示请有意者给编辑部写信。

• The office address is jfdeditorialoffice@wiley.com, and new manuscripts enter through the Wiley Authors portal under the short code JFD.编辑部信箱挂在 wiley.com 上，新稿经 Wiley Authors 门户按简称 JFD 递交。

• Median submission to first decision is 23 days, and the publisher reports a 36 percent acceptance rate.从投稿到首次决定的中间值 23 天，出版方报告的录用率是 36%。