ASFA in numbers

ASFA Partnership

ASFA Partners

National partners

International partners

UN partners

(FAO, IODE, UN DOALOS)

Publishing partner

(ProQuest)

OpenASFA

51,749

OpenASFA records

22,728

Books

4,036

Chapters

585

Datasets

24,400

Journal articles

255

Registered global users

Collections

18 collections that support specific fisheries and aquaculture topics

The top five largest collections:

European freshwaters 3,132 records

ADRIAMED 1,352 records

Small-scale fisheries (Africa) 1,339 records

Support to SDG 14.4.1 (Southeast Asia) 1,070 records

CECAF-PESCAO 942 records

ASFA on ProQuest

Its origins date back over 50 years when ASFA was printed as an abstracting and indexing journal.

Today, it has over

4.4 million

records (4,504,377)

ASFA Thesaurus

5,869

concepts

languages

members of the ASFA Vocabulary Working Group

who manage updates and translations for the ASFA Thesaurus

Top 10 OpenASFA Contributors

Institutions providing the highest number of records

Freshwater Biological Association (FBA), United Kingdom

12,758 records

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

8,015 records

Fisheries and Oceans, Canada

6,986 records

National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS), China

3,597 records

Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), Russian Federation

2,768 records

Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA), Japan

2,187 records

International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)

1,733 records

Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Kenya

1,728 records

WorldFish Center

1,584 records

Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute (IFSRI), Iran

1,477 records

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)