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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0025-3154Verify ISSN ↗1469-7769Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 175 / 259 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1906–present (also 1902–1904, 1887–1900), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom is Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 175 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.346, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 84.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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 the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0025-3154 and its online ISSN is 1469-7769.
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 the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom has an h-index of 149 and a 2-year mean of 1.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #138 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom published 141 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 215. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (21.2%), Brazil (12.3%) and Japan (11.1%).
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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