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Marine Biological Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7). Published by A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS.
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ISSN 2499-9768Verify ISSN ↗2499-9776Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 430 / 491 | 12th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 669 / 736 | 9th | Q4 |
| Aquatic Science | 243 / 259 | 6th | 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 2016–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Marine Biological Journal is Q4 in Ecology (rank 430 of 491), Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 669 of 736) and Q4 in Aquatic Science (rank 243 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Marine Biological Journal 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 0.7, quartile Q4, 12th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.213, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Marine Biological Journal is published by A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS. Its print ISSN is 2499-9768 and its online ISSN is 2499-9776.
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.
Marine Biological Journal has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #426 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Marine Biological Journal published 17 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 44. 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 50 research articles (2021–2022), authors are most often from Russia (56%), Ukraine (33%) and Türkiye (3%). 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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