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LATEST IMPACT FACTOR 2023: 1.5
In Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuters 2024

Gulf and Caribbean Research is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal published online by The University of Southern Mississippi and co-sponsored by the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. The journal was originally founded in 1961 by Gordon Gunter as a publication of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, and was titled Gulf Research Reports; that title persisted through 1999. Starting in 2000, the name was changed to Gulf and Caribbean Research to better reflect the scope of manuscripts, and the journal was published in traditional hard-copy format through 2013. After a brief hiatus involving a change to an electronic only format, the journal began accepting articles for publication in 2015. The journal considers manuscripts which deal mainly with research or research issues pertinent to the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.

PlumX metrics for individual articles (usage, captures, mentions, social media, citations) can be viewed by clicking on the article title and then clicking on “PlumX Metrics”.

In 2024, we will have two Ocean Reflections invited papers. The first OR paper was just published, entitled "Lessons From an Iconic Grouper: Sex, Science, and Serendipity" by Dr. Yvonne J. Sadovy de Mitcheson. The second OR paper will be our first co-authored paper entitled ‘How do you solve a problem like the groupers? A review of Gag, Red Grouper, and Goliath Grouper in the Southeastern United States’ co-developed by Drs. Chris Koenig and Felicia Coleman who are retired from the Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory. Jointly, they were responsible for establishing two 100+ square mile shelf-edge fishery reserves in the NE Gulf of Mexico: ‘Madison Swanson’ and ‘Steamboat Lumps.’ Additionally, Koenig and Coleman’s research on the biology of threatened and endangered reef fish species has also been important in the protection of Atlantic Goliath Grouper (Epinephelus itajara).

Open-access fees for the Ocean Reflection articles are supported by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Corpus Christi, Texas.

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

Current Issue: Volume 35, Issue 1 (2024)

Editorial

Photos from Select Journal Articles Added to Gulf and Caribbean Research Web Page and Updated Impact Factor
Nancy J. Brown-Peterson and Mark S. Peterson

Available as Open Access

Ocean Reflections

Lessons From an Iconic Grouper: Sex, Science, and Serendipity
Yvonne J. Sadovy de Mitcheson

2024

Available as Open Access

Articles

Braving the elements: Loss of metals from Mardi Gras beads due to handling and weathering
Thomas O. Carmichael and Ruth H. Carmichael

Available as Open Access

Seasonal abundance of the nudibranch Dondice jupiteriensis on the colonial hydroid Eudendrium carneum
Erika Molina, Daniela Gutierrez-Andrade, Samantha Schlegel, Julia Piper, Louis J. Ambrosio, and Michael L. Middlebrooks

Available as Open Access

Autotomy of Globiferous Pedicellariae in the Sea Urchin Lytechinus variegatus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea)
Adam Bretschneider and Christopher M. Pomory

Antibiotic Resistance in a Coastal River in Mississippi, USA – Potential Drivers
Shuo Shen, Wei Wu, Eric A. Saillant, and Darrell Jay Grimes

Available as Open Access

An Aggregation of the Pandalid Shrimp, Heterocarpus ensifer, on Deep Reef Habitats of the West Florida Slope, Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Steve W. Ross

Available as Open Access

Advancing The Blue Economy Through Sustainable Mariculture: The Prospect of Pearl Oyster and Sponge Cultivation in St. Vincent and The Grenadines
Kevin Antonio Providence

Available as Open Access

Stable Isotope Analysis of Antipatharian Diets from the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
Keir J. Macartney, Victoria Salinas, Zachary Rivera, and David Hicks

Available as Open Access

Short Communications

Nekton Community Responses to Living Shoreline Restorations in Alabama
Shelby Kuck, Christopher Grant, Matheus de Barros, Alexandra Rodriguez, and Ronald Baker

Available as Open Access

Light and salinity effects on Vallisneria americana seed germination and seedling growth
Chelsea Lawrence, Dorothy Byron, and Charles Martin

Available as Open Access

Stable Isotope Analysis of Manatee Vibrissae to Investigate Individual Patterns of Resource Use in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Levette Tucker, Mackenzie L. Russell, Elizabeth E. Hieb, Ruth H. Carmichael, and Carl S. Cloyed

Available as Open Access

A Preliminary Investigation of Adherence to Shell Length Regulations and Adaptive Capacity of the Turneffe Atoll Queen Conch (Aliger gigas) Fishery, Belize
Elsa M. K. Brenner, Vincent Sollitto, Vincent Baribeau, Rebecca Branconi, and Paul Simonin

Available as Open Access

Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Partnerships

Recruitment of Juvenile Snapper (Lutjanidae) in the Middle Florida Keys: Temporal Trends and Fine-Scale Habitat Associations
Jack C. Olson, Ariel Tobin, Mareike D. Duffing Romero, and Alejandro Acosta

Available as Open Access

Applying the Disaster Risk Assessment Framework to Sargassum Inundation in Barbados
A. Karima Degia, Micaela Small, and Hazel A. Oxenford

Available as Open Access

Short-term temporal trends of a coral reef in Samana (Dominican Republic): The value of a permanent monitoring program to identify drivers of rapid change
Aldo Croquer, Someira Zambrano, D. Yasmín Evangelista-Perez, Samuel King, Sergio Guendulain-Garcia, Maria F Villalpando, and Rita Sellares-Blasco

Available as Open Access

Obituary

Michael Anthony Poirrier
Hyun Jung Cho, Patrick D. Biber, Martin T. O'Connell, and Carol D. Franz

Available as Open Access