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Fish Pathology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Japanese Society of Fish Pathology.
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ISSN 0388-788XVerify ISSN ↗1881-7335Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society of Fish Pathology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 452 / 520 | 13th | Q4 |
| Aquatic Science | 236 / 259 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1967–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Fish Pathology is Q4 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 452 of 520) and Q4 in Aquatic Science (rank 236 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Fish Pathology 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 13th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.326, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 49.
Fish Pathology is published by Japanese Society of Fish Pathology. Its print ISSN is 0388-788X and its online ISSN is 1881-7335.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Fish Pathology has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 1.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #243 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Fish Pathology published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 37. 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 96 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Japan (92.7%), Thailand (1.6%) and Taiwan (1.6%). 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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