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African Journal of Marine Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), 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 1814-232XVerify ISSN ↗1814-2338Verify 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 | 382 / 736 | 48th | Q3 |
| Aquatic Science | 143 / 259 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
African Journal of Marine Science is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 382 of 736) and Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 143 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Marine 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.422, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 61.
African Journal of Marine Science is published by National Inquiry Services Centre Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1814-232X and its online ISSN is 1814-2338.
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 Marine Science has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 0.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #407 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
African Journal of Marine Science published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 47. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (57.4%), United States (4.1%) and United Kingdom (3.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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 none 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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