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Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi

Nihon Suisan Gakkai · Japan

ISSN0021-5392eISSN1349-998X

SJR Q4✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q4. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.159

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.431

Total Worksi

17,022

Total Citationsi

115,103

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.07

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi covers subjects in biology, geology and earth sciences, with a specific academic field in marine and freshwater biology.

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General Information

Country / RegionJapan

Primary Language—

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 170 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications17,022

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Nihon Suisan Gakkai

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0021-5392 / 1349-998X

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

192

157

2019

162

130

2020

218

148

2021

183

2022

168

2023

174

2024

169

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Aquatic ScienceQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Fisheries

Scopus Categories

Aquatic Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Aquaculture Nutrition and GrowthMarine and fisheries researchMeat and Animal Product QualityFish Ecology and Management StudiesFish Biology and Ecology StudiesFood Industry and Aquatic BiologyMarine Bivalve and Aquaculture StudiesReproductive biology and impacts on aquatic speciesAquaculture disease management and microbiotaFood Quality and Safety Studies

Frequently asked questions about Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi

Is Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi?

Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.07.

Is Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.