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Journal of the World Aquaculture Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0893-8849Verify ISSN ↗1749-7345Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 27 / 259 | 89th | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 70 / 422 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.9.
Journal of the World Aquaculture Society is Q1 in Aquatic Science (rank 27 of 259) and Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 70 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 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 6.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.827, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 82.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,430 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 World Aquaculture Society is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0893-8849 and its online ISSN is 1749-7345.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of the World Aquaculture Society has an h-index of 99 and a 2-year mean of 3.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Journal of the World Aquaculture Society published 94 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 113. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (18.7%), United States (17.8%) and Iran (8.2%).
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.
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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