THE HISTORY AND CURRENT IMPACT OF THE CALIFORNIA FISH AND WILDLIFE JOURNAL, CALIFORNIA'S LONGEST-RUNNING SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL

Ange D Baker; California Department of Fish and Wildlife; angela.baker@wildlife.ca.gov;

The California Fish and Wildlife Journal, formerly California Fish and Game, is California’s longest-running, continuously published scientific journal. Over its 110-year history, the Journal has been a well-regarded and rigorous scientific journal that has undergone numerous changes over the years. Following a shift to online, open-source publishing in 2014, the Journal is now easily accessible to researchers, resource managers, and other interested parties around the world. Other recent changes include the publication of special issues on current topics, publication directly in HTML (to increase accessibility, navigability, and translatability), and updating of the Journal’s title and cover. Due to these improvements and the implementation of permanent object identifiers (DOIs), the Journal’s impact factor has increased by over 400% in the last five years and is now higher than many other journals of similar scope. As a result of these changes, the Journal is now indexed among other scholarly works (e.g., Google Scholar, Web of Science). This poster will provide an overview of the Journal’s changes and include metrics on its 110-year history, including changes in the representation of different taxonomic groups, game vs. nongame species, and the numbers and types of papers published.

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