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Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by EDP Sciences.
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ISSN 1961-9502Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: EDP Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 92 / 231 | 60th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 212 / 491 | 56th | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 116 / 259 | 55th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 226 / 432 | 47th | Q3 |
| Water Science and Technology | 159 / 279 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems is Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 92 of 231), Q2 in Ecology (rank 212 of 491) and Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 116 of 259), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.475, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems is published by EDP Sciences. Its ISSN is 1961-9502.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 2.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 58. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from France (24.8%), Poland (7.2%) and United States (6.3%).
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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