Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Aquatic Science journal rankings 2016
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Aquatic Science has 39 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2015 to 0.41, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.72. The top three are Reviews in Aquaculture, Marine Drugs, and Aquaculture.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
39 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Reviews in AquacultureWiley · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 2.56 1.86 down from 2015 | 105 | 23% | $4,480 | ||
2Marine DrugsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.04Q1 | 4.44 0.11 up from 2015 | 1,038 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
3AquacultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 2.99 0.40 up from 2015 | 1,491 | 26% | $3,910 | ||
4Aquaculture NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 1.60 0.16 down from 2015 | 362 | 74% | $2,350 | ||
5The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic ResearchOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 1.09Q1 | 1.90 0.33 up from 2015 | 135 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
6Fish Physiology and BiochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.89Q1 | 1.70 0.05 up from 2015 | 403 | 14% | $2,590 | ||
7Aquaculture ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.85Q1 | 1.48 1.48 up from 2015 | 44 | 100% | $2,640 | ||
8Aquaculture InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.80Q1 | 1.22 0.18 up from 2015 | 339 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
9International aquatic research.OASpringer Nature · Iran | 0.79Q1 | 1.19 0.01 down from 2015 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
10Journal of Aquaculture Research & DevelopmentOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.72Q1 | 1.19 0.23 up from 2015 | 236 | 20% | — | ||
11Aquaculture ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.12 0.18 up from 2015 | 842 | 69% | $2,700 | ||
12Journal of the World Aquaculture SocietyOAWiley · United States | 0.65Q2 | 1.18 0.05 up from 2015 | 228 | 10% | $2,430 | ||
13North American Journal of AquacultureWiley · United States | 0.59Q2 | 0.94 0.07 down from 2015 | 186 | 3% | $3,500 | ||
14Fisheries ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.54Q2 | 1.00 0.07 up from 2015 | 358 | 12% | $2,490 | ||
15Journal of Applied IchthyologyWiley · Germany | 0.53Q2 | 0.89 0.08 down from 2015 | 821 | 68% | $2,430 | ||
16Latin American Journal of Aquatic ResearchOAEscuela de Ciencias del Mar, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso · Chile | 0.51Q2 | 0.71 0.05 down from 2015 | 203 | 100% | $350 | ||
17Acta Ichthyologica Et PiscatoriaOASzczecin Scientific Society · Poland | 0.48Q2 | 0.69 0.24 down from 2015 | 166 | 100% | $593 | ||
18Croatian Journal of FisheriesOADe Gruyter Open · Croatia | 0.45Q2 | 0.99 0.07 up from 2015 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
19Fisheries and Aquaculture JournalOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.42Q2 | 0.69 0.31 down from 2015 | 135 | 90% | — | ||
20Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesOACentral Fisheries Research Institute of Türkiye · Türkiye | 0.41Q2 | 0.51 0.07 down from 2015 | 432 | 62% | — | ||
21Journal of Fisheries & Livestock ProductionOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.52 0.40 down from 2015 | 112 | 59% | — | ||
22Journal of Applied AquacultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.58 0.08 up from 2015 | 91 | 10% | — | ||
23Fisheries & Aquatic LifeOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.38Q3 | 0.53 0.34 down from 2015 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
24Oceanological and Hydrobiological StudiesOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.35Q3 | 0.73 0.08 up from 2015 | 158 | 100% | — | ||
25Science InternationalOAScience International · United Arab Emirates | 0.32Q3 | 0.51 0.25 down from 2015 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
26Iranian journal of fisheries science/Iranian journal of fisheries scienceIranian Fisheries Research Organization · Iran | 0.31Q3 | 0.27 0.13 down from 2015 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
27Indian Journal of FisheriesOAIndian Council of Agricultural Research · India | 0.30Q3 | 0.27 0.07 down from 2015 | 231 | 100% | — | ||
28Journal of Marine BiologyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.28Q3 | 0.34 0.04 up from 2015 | 141 | 50% | $775 | ||
29Fisheries and aquatic sciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.27Q3 | 0.48no change | 167 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
30International Journal of AquacultureOACanada | 0.26Q3 | 0.29 0.08 down from 2015 | 93 | 0% | — | ||
31Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic ScienceOAPakistan | 0.25Q4 | 0.31 0.16 down from 2015 | 169 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Biology and Life ScienceMacrothink Institute · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.30 0.11 down from 2015 | 100 | 85% | — | ||
33Thalassas An International Journal of Marine SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Spain | 0.18Q4 | 0.29 0.29 down from 2015 | 30 | 12% | $3,090 | ||
34Asian Fisheries ScienceOAAsian Fisheries Society | 0.14Q4 | 0.33 0.08 up from 2015 | 81 | 14% | — | ||
35Journal of Aquaculture & Marine BiologyOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.10Q4 | 0.14no change | 79 | 55% | — | ||
36Nanfang shuichanChina | 0.09Q4 | 0.12 0.05 up from 2015 | 203 | 0% | — | ||
37JOURNAL OF FISHERIES OF CHINAOAShanghai Ocean University · China | 0.09Q4 | 0.14 0.05 up from 2015 | 531 | 0% | — | ||
38Acta Hydrobiologica SinicaScience Press · China | 0.08Q4 | 0.13 0.03 up from 2015 | 235 | 0% | — | ||
39Avances en Nutrición AcuicolaPublisher not listed | 0.02Q4 | 0.00no change | 41 | — | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Aquatic Science highlighted.
- Plant Science570
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics144
- Food Science132
- Insect Science56
- Animal Science and Zoology51
- Aquatic Science39
- Agronomy and Crop Science38
- Soil Science37
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences30
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
15 additional Aquatic Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 21,267 +32.7% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.408 -26.7% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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 |
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| 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.