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Biofouling is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0892-7014Verify ISSN ↗1029-2454Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 83 / 259 | 68th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 123 / 279 | 56th | Q2 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 77 / 134 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Biofouling is Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 83 of 259), Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 123 of 279) and Q3 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 77 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Biofouling 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.448, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 117.
Biofouling is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0892-7014 and its online ISSN is 1029-2454.
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.
Biofouling has an h-index of 127 and a 2-year mean of 2.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #56 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Biofouling published 78 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 94. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (16.8%), Brazil (15.2%) and United States (9.5%).
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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