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Maritime Affairs
Maritime Affairs is not currently indexed in Scopus. Published by Routledge.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0973-3159Verify ISSN ↗1946-6609Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Quick answers
Is Maritime Affairs indexed in Scopus?
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (2015–2022).
What is the impact factor of Maritime Affairs?
Maritime Affairs has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI) — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.195, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
Who publishes Maritime Affairs and what is its ISSN?
Maritime Affairs is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0973-3159 and its online ISSN is 1946-6609.
Is Maritime Affairs in Web of Science?
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Is Maritime Affairs open access?
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Scopus coverage history
Scopus indexed Maritime Affairs for 8 years, between 2015 and 2022. Coverage ended in 2022, 4 years ago, and Scopus now lists the title as inactive.
Is it still publishing? OpenAlex lists 302 works and 1,548 citations for the title. Its most recent paper is from 2022, in line with the end of Scopus coverage in 2022, which suggests the journal stopped publishing around then.
How well cited is Maritime Affairs? — open metrics via OpenAlex
Maritime Affairs has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex).
Maritime Affairs published 17 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 27. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
Who publishes in Maritime Affairs? — latest 21 articles, 2021–2022
In its latest 21 research articles (2021–2022), authors are most often from India (54.8%), Malta (9.5%) and Vietnam (7.1%). 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.
Are there integrity warnings for Maritime Affairs? — indicators, not proof of misconduct
Scopus status: Inactive — coverage ended 2022. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
- Scopus statusInactive — coverage ended 2022
- Retracted papers None recorded
- Problematic Paper Screener flags None flagged
- Author concentration54.8% of recent authorship from India
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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