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Hupo Kexue/Journal of Lake Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7). Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1003-5427Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 64 / 194 | 67th | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 86 / 259 | 66th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 129 / 279 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Pollution | 91 / 180 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Hupo Kexue/Journal of Lake Sciences is Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 64 of 194), Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 86 of 259) and Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 129 of 279), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Hupo Kexue/Journal of Lake 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 3.7, quartile Q2, 67th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.484, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Hupo Kexue/Journal of Lake Sciences is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1003-5427.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hupo Kexue/Journal of Lake Sciences has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #119 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Hupo Kexue/Journal of Lake Sciences published 150 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 171. 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.
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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