Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Aquatic Science journal rankings 2018
44 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Aquatic Science has 44 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.41, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 0.85. The top three are Reviews in Aquaculture, Marine Drugs, and Aquaculture and Fisheries.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
44 ranked journals
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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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Reviews in AquacultureWiley · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 5.56 2.01 up from 2017 | 106 | 32% | $4,480 | ||
2Marine DrugsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.14Q1 | 4.66 0.89 down from 2017 | 1,002 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
3Aquaculture and FisheriesOAElsevier BV · China | 1.66Q1 | 3.38 2.52 up from 2017 | 45 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
4AquacultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.62Q1 | 3.33 0.10 up from 2017 | 1,489 | 27% | $3,910 | ||
5Aquaculture NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 1.63 0.67 down from 2017 | 393 | 78% | $2,350 | ||
6The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic ResearchOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 1.26Q1 | 2.36 0.69 up from 2017 | 141 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
7Aquaculture ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 2.25 0.04 down from 2017 | 139 | 100% | $2,640 | ||
8Journal of Animal Research and NutritionOAUnited States | 1.13Q1 | 1.89 0.89 up from 2017 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
9Aquaculture InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.08Q1 | 1.79 0.23 up from 2017 | 337 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
10Fish Physiology and BiochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.90Q1 | 1.95 0.18 up from 2017 | 408 | 16% | $2,590 | ||
11Aquaculture ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.85Q1 | 1.69 0.43 up from 2017 | 879 | 73% | $2,700 | ||
12Journal of the World Aquaculture SocietyOAWiley · United States | 0.68Q2 | 1.33 0.02 down from 2017 | 305 | 17% | $2,430 | ||
13International aquatic research.OASpringer Nature · Iran | 0.65Q2 | 1.17 0.01 down from 2017 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
14North American Journal of AquacultureWiley · United States | 0.62Q2 | 0.95 0.05 up from 2017 | 152 | 8% | $3,500 | ||
15Fisheries ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.56Q2 | 0.94 0.14 up from 2017 | 368 | 18% | $2,490 | ||
16Fisheries & Aquatic LifeOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.52Q2 | 0.85 0.09 up from 2017 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
17Croatian Journal of FisheriesOADe Gruyter Open · Croatia | 0.48Q2 | 1.23 0.68 up from 2017 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
18Journal of Applied AquacultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.47Q2 | 0.81 0.23 up from 2017 | 92 | 9% | — | ||
19Journal of Applied IchthyologyWiley · Germany | 0.47Q2 | 0.95 0.09 up from 2017 | 874 | 74% | $2,430 | ||
20Science InternationalOAScience International · United Arab Emirates | 0.44Q2 | 1.00 0.25 up from 2017 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
21Latin American Journal of Aquatic ResearchOAEscuela de Ciencias del Mar, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso · Chile | 0.44Q2 | 0.81 0.13 up from 2017 | 380 | 100% | $350 | ||
22Fisheries and aquatic sciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.43Q2 | 1.25 0.60 up from 2017 | 132 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
23Oceanological and Hydrobiological StudiesOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.40Q3 | 0.81 0.06 up from 2017 | 148 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic ScienceOAPakistan | 0.38Q3 | 0.53 0.08 down from 2017 | 133 | 100% | — | ||
25Acta Ichthyologica Et PiscatoriaOASzczecin Scientific Society · Poland | 0.37Q3 | 0.75 0.02 up from 2017 | 175 | 100% | $593 | ||
26Asian Fisheries ScienceOAAsian Fisheries Society | 0.34Q3 | 0.37 0.10 up from 2017 | 94 | 52% | — | ||
27Iranian journal of fisheries science/Iranian journal of fisheries scienceIranian Fisheries Research Organization · Iran | 0.32Q3 | 0.40 0.17 up from 2017 | 53 | 0% | — | ||
28Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesOACentral Fisheries Research Institute of Türkiye · Türkiye | 0.30Q3 | 0.53 0.09 up from 2017 | 804 | 47% | — | ||
| 0.29Q3 | 0.57 0.45 up from 2017 | 31 | 100% | — | |||
30Journal of Aquaculture Research & DevelopmentOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.25Q3 | 0.25 0.18 down from 2017 | 443 | 37% | — | ||
31Thalassas An International Journal of Marine SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Spain | 0.25Q3 | 0.61 0.28 up from 2017 | 65 | 6% | $3,090 | ||
32Journal of Marine BiologyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.24Q3 | 0.69 0.11 up from 2017 | 73 | 50% | $775 | ||
33Indian Journal of FisheriesOAIndian Council of Agricultural Research · India | 0.24Q3 | 0.36 0.10 up from 2017 | 347 | 100% | — | ||
34Fisheries and Aquaculture JournalOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.31 0.04 down from 2017 | 139 | 4% | — | ||
35Journal of Fisheries & Livestock ProductionOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.21Q4 | 0.30 0.04 up from 2017 | 244 | 96% | — | ||
36Journal of Marine Biology and AquacultureOAUnited States | 0.17Q4 | 0.25 0.08 down from 2017 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
36Journal of Aquaculture & Marine BiologyOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.36 0.14 up from 2017 | 180 | 100% | — | ||
38International Journal of AquacultureOACanada | 0.16Q4 | 0.20 0.06 up from 2017 | 98 | 0% | — | ||
39Oceanography & Fisheries Open access JournalOAUnited States | 0.13Q4 | 0.19 0.09 up from 2017 | 113 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal of Biology and Life ScienceMacrothink Institute · United States | 0.13Q4 | 0.07 0.24 down from 2017 | 54 | 90% | — | ||
41Avances en Nutrición AcuicolaPublisher not listed | 0.10Q4 | 0.21 0.21 up from 2017 | 39 | — | — | ||
42JOURNAL OF FISHERIES OF CHINAOAShanghai Ocean University · China | 0.09Q4 | 0.21 0.08 up from 2017 | 219 | 0% | — | ||
43Acta Hydrobiologica SinicaScience Press · China | 0.05Q4 | 0.08 0.02 down from 2017 | 102 | 0% | — | ||
44Nanfang shuichanChina | 0.04Q4 | 0.00 0.05 down from 2017 | 71 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Aquatic Science highlighted.
- Plant Science571
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics148
- Food Science146
- Animal Science and Zoology59
- Insect Science54
- Aquatic Science44
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Soil Science39
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences32
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% 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 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 44
- Window papers (baseline)
- 25,182 +29.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.4136 -11.4% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.