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Journal of Fishery Sciences of China is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5). Published by Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences.
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ISSN 1005-8737Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 504 / 736 | 31st | Q3 |
| Aquatic Science | 179 / 259 | 31st | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 314 / 432 | 27th | 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 2016–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Fishery Sciences of China is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 504 of 736), Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 179 of 259) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 314 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Fishery Sciences of China 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 1.5, quartile Q3, 31st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.233, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
Journal of Fishery Sciences of China is published by Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences. Its ISSN is 1005-8737.
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.
Journal of Fishery Sciences of China has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #652 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Journal of Fishery Sciences of China published 8 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 532. 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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