Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Aquatic Science journal rankings 2014
37 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Aquatic Science has 37 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2013 to 0.50, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.79. The top three are Reviews in Aquaculture, Marine Drugs, and Aquaculture Nutrition.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
37 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Reviews in AquacultureWiley · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 3.76 1.16 up from 2013 | 85 | 31% | $4,480 | ||
2Marine DrugsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.24Q1 | 3.77 0.58 down from 2013 | 677 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
3Aquaculture NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 2.12 0.28 up from 2013 | 239 | 52% | $2,350 | ||
4AquacultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.32Q1 | 2.43 0.11 up from 2013 | 1,527 | 12% | $3,910 | ||
5International aquatic research.OASpringer Nature · Iran | 1.23Q1 | 2.09 1.17 up from 2013 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
6Fish Physiology and BiochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.98Q1 | 1.62 0.02 down from 2013 | 418 | 9% | $2,590 | ||
7Journal of the World Aquaculture SocietyOAWiley · United States | 0.92Q1 | 1.18 0.02 up from 2013 | 265 | 11% | $2,430 | ||
8Journal of Marine BiologyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.82Q1 | 0.93 0.18 down from 2013 | 140 | 43% | $775 | ||
9Aquaculture InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.80Q1 | 1.23 0.18 up from 2013 | 326 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
10Aquaculture ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.79Q1 | 1.16 0.04 up from 2013 | 898 | 60% | $2,700 | ||
11The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic ResearchOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 0.77Q2 | 1.33 0.56 up from 2013 | 63 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
12Journal of Applied IchthyologyWiley · Germany | 0.66Q2 | 1.01 0.12 down from 2013 | 822 | 58% | $2,430 | ||
13North American Journal of AquacultureWiley · United States | 0.59Q2 | 1.07 0.05 up from 2013 | 230 | 4% | $3,500 | ||
13Journal of Aquaculture Research & DevelopmentOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.59Q2 | 0.65 0.01 down from 2013 | 148 | 92% | — | ||
15Oceanological and Hydrobiological StudiesOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.58Q2 | 0.80 0.38 down from 2013 | 145 | 100% | — | ||
16Fisheries ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.55Q2 | 1.18 0.08 up from 2013 | 364 | 6% | $2,490 | ||
17Acta Ichthyologica Et PiscatoriaOASzczecin Scientific Society · Poland | 0.51Q2 | 0.86 0.10 down from 2013 | 122 | 100% | $593 | ||
18Fisheries and aquatic sciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.51Q2 | 1.14 0.02 up from 2013 | 126 | 90% | $1,990 | ||
19Fisheries & Aquatic LifeOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.50Q2 | 0.89 0.25 up from 2013 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
20Latin American Journal of Aquatic ResearchOAEscuela de Ciencias del Mar, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso · Chile | 0.46Q3 | 0.81 0.33 up from 2013 | 265 | 100% | $350 | ||
21Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesOACentral Fisheries Research Institute of Türkiye · Türkiye | 0.45Q3 | 0.65 0.11 up from 2013 | 312 | 49% | — | ||
22International Journal of AquacultureOACanada | 0.45Q3 | 0.57 0.02 up from 2013 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
23Fisheries and aquatic sciencesThe Korean Society of Fisheries and Aquatic Science · South Korea | 0.45Q3 | —no 2013 value | 31 | — | — | ||
24Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic ScienceOAPakistan | 0.42Q3 | 0.50 0.13 down from 2013 | 230 | 57% | — | ||
25Thalassas An International Journal of Marine SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Spain | 0.41Q3 | 0.29 0.78 down from 2013 | 39 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
26Journal of Applied AquacultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.60 0.19 up from 2013 | 102 | 6% | — | ||
27Journal of Biology and Life ScienceMacrothink Institute · United States | 0.33Q3 | 0.49 0.18 up from 2013 | 85 | 88% | — | ||
28Science InternationalOAScience International · United Arab Emirates | 0.30Q3 | 0.52 0.19 up from 2013 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
29Indian Journal of FisheriesOAIndian Council of Agricultural Research · India | 0.30Q4 | 0.41no change | 212 | 100% | — | ||
30Iranian journal of fisheries science/Iranian journal of fisheries scienceIranian Fisheries Research Organization · Iran | 0.29Q4 | 0.46 0.23 down from 2013 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
31Fisheries and Aquaculture JournalOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.28Q4 | 0.38 0.38 up from 2013 | 32 | 27% | — | ||
32Croatian Journal of FisheriesOADe Gruyter Open · Croatia | 0.27Q4 | 1.03 1.03 up from 2013 | 34 | 80% | — | ||
33Asian Fisheries ScienceOAAsian Fisheries Society | 0.12Q4 | 0.27 0.07 up from 2013 | 120 | 2% | — | ||
34JOURNAL OF FISHERIES OF CHINAOAShanghai Ocean University · China | 0.08Q4 | 0.12 0.05 down from 2013 | 345 | 0% | — | ||
35Acta Hydrobiologica SinicaScience Press · China | 0.07Q4 | 0.12 0.03 up from 2013 | 559 | 3% | — | ||
36Nanfang shuichanChina | 0.04Q4 | 0.07 0.01 up from 2013 | 214 | 0% | — | ||
37Avances en Nutrición AcuicolaPublisher not listed | 0.00Q4 | 0.00 0.07 down from 2013 | 35 | — | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Aquatic Science highlighted.
- Plant Science518
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics140
- Food Science114
- Insect Science52
- Animal Science and Zoology47
- Aquatic Science37
- Agronomy and Crop Science36
- Soil Science33
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences29
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Aquatic Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 37
- Window papers (baseline)
- 17,677 +32.9% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.50 -14.0% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 16 | 16 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 37 | 36 | 39 | 38 | 44 | 43 | 39 | 37 | 34 | 36 | 34 | 35 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 5,770 | 7,046 | 7,348 | 7,851 | 7,261 | 7,613 | 8,005 | 8,802 | 9,834 | 10,881 | 12,147 | 13,298 | 14,655 | 16,032 | 17,677 | 19,465 | 21,267 | 22,952 | 25,182 | 25,805 | 26,298 | 27,183 | 29,405 | 31,084 | 31,921 | 33,289 | |
| Median OJR | 0.34 | 0.306 | 0.325 | 0.4143 | 0.310 | 0.28 | 0.319 | 0.30 | 0.36 | 0.57 | 0.4092 | 0.58 | 0.4094 | 0.56 | 0.50 | 0.467 | 0.408 | 0.40 | 0.4136 | 0.45 | 0.461 | 0.42 | 0.468 | 0.53 | 0.52 | 0.462 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.