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Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), DOAJ. Published by Korean Society of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
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ISSN 2234-1749Verify ISSN ↗2234-1757Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 156 / 259 | 39th | Q3 |
| Oceanography | 95 / 154 | 38th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 356 / 448 | 20th | Q4 |
| Molecular Biology | 349 / 414 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences is Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 156 of 259), Q3 in Oceanography (rank 95 of 154) and Q4 in Biochemistry (rank 356 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3, 39th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.304, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,990 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.
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences is published by Korean Society of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Its print ISSN is 2234-1749 and its online ISSN is 2234-1757.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 1.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #128 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 78. 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (35.5%), Indonesia (25.3%) and Ethiopia (10.7%).
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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