In May 2016, a total of 1702 records were available in the SOTA ISSF layer. Among them, 61% are found to be peer-reviewed papers, 20% reports, 10% books or books chapters, and 3% conference proceedings. Information on SSF are also disseminated through newsletters, PhD theses, documentaries, monographs, handbooks, or teaching kits. When focusing on peer-reviewed publications, we found that no less than 298 different peer reviewed journals were considered to publish worldwide SSF research results. Among them, the most frequent were Marine Policy, Fisheries Research, and Ocean and Coastal Management (20%, 10%, and 7% of the publications listed in ISSF, respectively). However, many other journals such as Ecology and Society, African Journal of Marine Science, Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, Environment and Natural Resources Research, or Rural Sociology also published studies on SSF around the globe.