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Gulf and Caribbean Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI. Published by University of Southern MIssissippi.
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ISSN 1528-0470Verify ISSN ↗2572-1410Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Southern MIssissippi
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 229 / 279 | 18th | Q4 |
| Oceanography | 127 / 154 | 17th | Q4 |
| Aquatic Science | 216 / 259 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.1.
Gulf and Caribbean Research is Q4 in Water Science and Technology (rank 229 of 279), Q4 in Oceanography (rank 127 of 154) and Q4 in Aquatic Science (rank 216 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Gulf and Caribbean Research is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 18th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.178, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
Gulf and Caribbean Research is published by University of Southern MIssissippi. Its print ISSN is 1528-0470 and its online ISSN is 2572-1410.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Gulf and Caribbean Research has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #197 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Gulf and Caribbean Research published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 24. 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 74 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (78.2%), Mexico (5.4%) and Sweden (2.7%). 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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