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Aquaculture and Fisheries is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2096-1758Verify ISSN ↗2468-550XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 7 / 259 | 97th | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 29 / 736 | 96th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 32 / 491 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.4.
Aquaculture and Fisheries is Q1 in Aquatic Science (rank 7 of 259), Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 29 of 736) and Q1 in Ecology (rank 32 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Aquaculture and Fisheries is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 10.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.901, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 41.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Aquaculture and Fisheries is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2096-1758 and its online ISSN is 2468-550X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Aquaculture and Fisheries has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 2.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Aquaculture and Fisheries published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 110. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (49.7%), India (10.7%) and Australia (3.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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