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Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), DOAJ. Published by Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association.
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ISSN 0856-860XVerify ISSN ↗2683-6416Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 305 / 491 | 37th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 200 / 307 | 35th | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 294 / 432 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science is Q3 in Ecology (rank 305 of 491), Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 200 of 307) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 294 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3, 37th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.339, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science is published by Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association. Its print ISSN is 0856-860X and its online ISSN is 2683-6416.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #297 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 47. 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 93 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Tanzania (29.9%), Kenya (20.3%) and South Africa (10.4%).
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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