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Bulletin of Marine Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
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ISSN 0007-4977Verify ISSN ↗1553-6955Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 168 / 259 | 35th | Q3 |
| Oceanography | 102 / 154 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present (also 1973–1976), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Bulletin of Marine Science is Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 168 of 259) and Q3 in Oceanography (rank 102 of 154), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulletin of Marine Science 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.276, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 92.
Bulletin of Marine Science is published by Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Its print ISSN is 0007-4977 and its online ISSN is 1553-6955.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bulletin of Marine Science has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 1.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Bulletin of Marine Science published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 97. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.3%), Brazil (6.7%) and Mexico (5.8%).
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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