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Aquaculture Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3). Published by Central Fisheries Research Institute.
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ISSN 2618-6381Verify ISSN ↗2651-3668Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Central Fisheries Research Institute
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 163 / 520 | 68th | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 117 / 259 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Aquaculture Studies is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 163 of 520) and Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 117 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Aquaculture Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2, 68th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.354, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Aquaculture Studies is published by Central Fisheries Research Institute. Its print ISSN is 2618-6381 and its online ISSN is 2651-3668.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Aquaculture Studies has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #274 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Aquaculture Studies published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 33. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (13.6%), Nigeria (13.1%) and Bangladesh (9.6%).
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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