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Marine Resource Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0738-1360Verify ISSN ↗2334-5985Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 270 / 876 | 69th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 271 / 755 | 64th | Q2 |
| Oceanography | 57 / 154 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 189 / 432 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1989, 1987), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Marine Resource Economics is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 270 of 876), Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 271 of 755) and Q2 in Oceanography (rank 57 of 154), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Marine Resource Economics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.470, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 54.
Marine Resource Economics is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0738-1360 and its online ISSN is 2334-5985.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Marine Resource Economics has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 1.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #272 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Marine Resource Economics published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 34. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (46.3%), Norway (14.5%) and Denmark (4.3%).
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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