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Russian Journal of Marine Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 1063-0740Verify ISSN ↗1608-3377Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 228 / 259 | 11th | Q4 |
| Oceanography | 137 / 154 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Russian Journal of Marine Biology is Q4 in Aquatic Science (rank 228 of 259) and Q4 in Oceanography (rank 137 of 154), by CiteScore 2025.
Russian Journal of Marine Biology 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 11th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 31.
Russian Journal of Marine Biology is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1063-0740 and its online ISSN is 1608-3377.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Russian Journal of Marine Biology has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #209 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Russian Journal of Marine Biology published 100 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 132. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (81.9%), China (5.4%) and India (4.7%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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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