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Journal of Applied Phycology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 0921-8971Verify ISSN ↗1573-5176Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 34 / 259 | 87th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 95 / 541 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Journal of Applied Phycology is Q1 in Aquatic Science (rank 34 of 259) and Q1 in Plant Science (rank 95 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Applied Phycology 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.641, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 151.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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.
Journal of Applied Phycology is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 0921-8971 and its online ISSN is 1573-5176.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Applied Phycology has an h-index of 176 and a 2-year mean of 3.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Journal of Applied Phycology published 337 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 337. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (10.4%), India (9.8%) and Brazil (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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