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African Journal of Aquatic Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by National Inquiry Services Centre Ltd.
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ISSN 1608-5914Verify ISSN ↗1727-9364Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Inquiry Services Centre Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 346 / 736 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 134 / 259 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
African Journal of Aquatic Science is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 346 of 736) and Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 134 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Aquatic Science is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.353, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 41.
African Journal of Aquatic Science is published by National Inquiry Services Centre Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1608-5914 and its online ISSN is 1727-9364.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Journal of Aquatic Science has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 1.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #352 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
African Journal of Aquatic Science published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 68. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (32.3%), Nigeria (10.4%) and Ethiopia (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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