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Marine Biology Research

Taylor and Francis Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 1993

ISSN1745-1000eISSN1745-1019

SJR Q3✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.346

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.55

Total Worksi

1,472

Total Citationsi

24,109

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.90

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Ecology; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1993

Annual Volume~ 40 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,472

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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Submission Info

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

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1745-1000 / 1745-1019

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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?

English

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

575

2019

484

2020

504

2021

229

2022

176

2023

2024

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 ScienceQ3

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ3

OceanographyQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

EcologyMarine & Freshwater Biology

Scopus Categories

OceanographyEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsAquatic Science

Frequently asked questions about Marine Biology Research

Is Marine Biology Research a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Marine Biology Research: 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 Marine Biology Research?

Marine Biology Research 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 0.90.

Is Marine Biology Research indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Marine Biology Research is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Marine Biology Research?