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Aquatic Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1015-1621Verify ISSN ↗1420-9055Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 204 / 736 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Ecology | 152 / 491 | 69th | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 84 / 259 | 67th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 127 / 279 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present (also 1982), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Aquatic Sciences is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 204 of 736), Q2 in Ecology (rank 152 of 491) and Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 84 of 259), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Aquatic Sciences 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.712, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 94.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,190 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.
Aquatic Sciences is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1015-1621 and its online ISSN is 1420-9055.
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.
Aquatic Sciences has an h-index of 113 and a 2-year mean of 2.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #144 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Aquatic Sciences published 100 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 121. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (18.7%), Brazil (14.9%) and United States (8.4%).
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.
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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