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Marine Ecology Progress Series is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. Published by Inter-Research.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0171-8630Verify ISSN ↗1616-1599Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inter-Research
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 192 / 736 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Ecology | 149 / 491 | 69th | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 80 / 259 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1985–1988), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Marine Ecology Progress Series is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 192 of 736), Q2 in Ecology (rank 149 of 491) and Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 80 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Marine Ecology Progress Series 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.734, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 232.
Marine Ecology Progress Series is published by Inter-Research. Its print ISSN is 0171-8630 and its online ISSN is 1616-1599.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Marine Ecology Progress Series has an h-index of 298 and a 2-year mean of 2.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #197 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Marine Ecology Progress Series published 312 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 463. 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.
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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