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Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE. Published by National Research Council of Canada.
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ISSN 0706-652XVerify ISSN ↗1205-7533Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Research Council of Canada
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 182 / 736 | 75th | Q1 |
| Aquatic Science | 78 / 259 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 182 of 736) and Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 78 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.771, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 179.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences is published by National Research Council of Canada. Its print ISSN is 0706-652X and its online ISSN is 1205-7533.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences has an h-index of 252 and a 2-year mean of 1.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #224 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences published 204 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 245. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Canada (42.8%), United States (33.5%) and United Kingdom (3.9%).
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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