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Freshwater Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 2161-9549Verify ISSN ↗2161-9565Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 239 / 736 | 67th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 180 / 491 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 97 / 259 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Freshwater Science is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 239 of 736), Q2 in Ecology (rank 180 of 491) and Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 97 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Freshwater Science 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.611, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 135.
Freshwater Science is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 2161-9549 and its online ISSN is 2161-9565.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Freshwater Science has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 1.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #374 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Freshwater Science published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 92. 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 63 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (75.3%), Australia (4.9%) and Japan (3.2%). 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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