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Aquatic Microbial Ecology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Inter-Research.
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ISSN 0948-3055Verify ISSN ↗1616-1564Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inter-Research
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 371 / 736 | 49th | Q3 |
| Aquatic Science | 139 / 259 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Aquatic Microbial Ecology is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 371 of 736) and Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 139 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Aquatic Microbial Ecology 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.383, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 122.
Aquatic Microbial Ecology is published by Inter-Research. Its print ISSN is 0948-3055 and its online ISSN is 1616-1564.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Aquatic Microbial Ecology has an h-index of 137 and a 2-year mean of 3.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Aquatic Microbial Ecology published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 50. 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 60 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (28.3%), China (16.2%) and Japan (6.4%).
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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