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Journal of King Abdulaziz University, Marine Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1). Published by King Abdulaziz University Scientific Publishing Center.
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ISSN 1012-8840Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: King Abdulaziz University Scientific Publishing Center
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 230 / 279 | 17th | Q4 |
| Oceanography | 129 / 154 | 16th | Q4 |
| Aquatic Science | 217 / 259 | 16th | Q4 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 139 / 157 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–2025 (also 2009–2018), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Journal of King Abdulaziz University, Marine Science is Q4 in Water Science and Technology (rank 230 of 279), Q4 in Oceanography (rank 129 of 154) and Q4 in Aquatic Science (rank 217 of 259), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of King Abdulaziz University, Marine Science 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, quartile Q4, 17th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
Journal of King Abdulaziz University, Marine Science is published by King Abdulaziz University Scientific Publishing Center. Its ISSN is 1012-8840.
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 King Abdulaziz University, Marine Science has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #220 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Journal of King Abdulaziz University, Marine Science published 30 papers in 2025. 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 70 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Saudi Arabia (50.1%), Egypt (11%) and Indonesia (6.9%). 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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