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Fishery Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by National Marine Fisheries Service.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0090-0656Verify ISSN ↗1937-4518Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Marine Fisheries Service
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 193 / 259 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1979–1986), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Fishery Bulletin is Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 193 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Fishery Bulletin 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.301, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 78.
Fishery Bulletin is published by National Marine Fisheries Service. Its print ISSN is 0090-0656 and its online ISSN is 1937-4518.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Fishery Bulletin has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #204 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Fishery Bulletin published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 88. 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 42 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (76.2%), Japan (10.7%) and Russia (3.6%). 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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