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Estuaries and Coasts is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1559-2723Verify ISSN ↗1559-2731Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$2,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 43 / 259 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 131 / 736 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Ecology | 112 / 491 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present (also 2000–2001, 1978–1998), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
Estuaries and Coasts is Q1 in Aquatic Science (rank 43 of 259), Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 131 of 736) and Q1 in Ecology (rank 112 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Estuaries and Coasts 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.889, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 130.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,490 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.
Estuaries and Coasts is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1559-2723 and its online ISSN is 1559-2731.
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.
Estuaries and Coasts has an h-index of 112 and a 2-year mean of 2.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #54 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Estuaries and Coasts published 179 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 188. 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 United States (53.3%), Australia (6%) and Brazil (4.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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