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Mediterranean Marine Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Hellenic Centre for Marine Research.
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ISSN 1108-393XVerify ISSN ↗1791-6763Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 172 / 736 | 76th | Q1 |
| Aquatic Science | 71 / 259 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Oceanography | 50 / 154 | 67th | Q2 |
| Environmental Engineering | 96 / 241 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Mediterranean Marine Science is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 172 of 736), Q2 in Aquatic Science (rank 71 of 259) and Q2 in Oceanography (rank 50 of 154), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Mediterranean Marine Science 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.632, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 56.
Mediterranean Marine Science is published by Hellenic Centre for Marine Research. Its print ISSN is 1108-393X and its online ISSN is 1791-6763.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Mediterranean Marine Science has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 2.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #197 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Mediterranean Marine Science published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 77. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Italy (19.9%), Spain (17%) and Greece (10.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (3.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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