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Plankton and Benthos Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Plankton Society of Japan.
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ISSN 1880-8247Verify ISSN ↗1882-627XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Plankton Society of Japan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 338 / 491 | 31st | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 519 / 736 | 29th | Q3 |
| Aquatic Science | 185 / 259 | 28th | Q3 |
| Oceanography | 112 / 154 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Plankton and Benthos Research is Q3 in Ecology (rank 338 of 491), Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 519 of 736) and Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 185 of 259), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Plankton and Benthos 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.300, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
Plankton and Benthos Research is published by Plankton Society of Japan. Its print ISSN is 1880-8247 and its online ISSN is 1882-627X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Plankton and Benthos Research has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #321 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Plankton and Benthos Research published 56 papers in 2025. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (87.5%), Malaysia (2.8%) and Australia (2.1%). 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.
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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