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Aquaculture Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1355-557XVerify ISSN ↗1365-2109Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 38 / 259 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present (also 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Aquaculture Research is Q1 in Aquatic Science (rank 38 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Aquaculture Research 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.549, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 116.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,700 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Aquaculture Research is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1355-557X and its online ISSN is 1365-2109.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Aquaculture Research has an h-index of 132 and a 2-year mean of 2.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Aquaculture Research published 180 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 640. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (25.8%), Malaysia (5.6%) and Japan (4.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 17 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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