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Marine Biology Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1745-1000Verify ISSN ↗1745-1019Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 411 / 736 | 44th | Q3 |
| Aquatic Science | 151 / 259 | 41st | Q3 |
| Oceanography | 93 / 154 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Marine Biology Research is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 411 of 736), Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 151 of 259) and Q3 in Oceanography (rank 93 of 154), by CiteScore 2025.
Marine Biology Research 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.346, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 66.
Marine Biology Research is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1745-1000 and its online ISSN is 1745-1019.
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.
Marine Biology Research has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #367 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Marine Biology Research published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 101. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (12.8%), India (9.7%) and Japan (7.1%).
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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