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Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Schweizerbart Science Publishers · Germany · Est. 1987

ISSN1863-9135eISSN1863-9135

SJR Q3✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 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

0.231

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.356

Total Worksi

1,387

Total Citationsi

28,605

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.26

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Fundamental and Applied Limnology is an international journal for freshwater research in the widest sense. It includes problems of marine biology and brackish water research, covering fields such as Ecology, Hydrobiology, Habitat, Botany, and Invertebrate.

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General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1987

Annual Volume~ 12 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,387

Publisher OrgInternational Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology

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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?

Schweizerbart Science Publishers

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1863-9135 / 1863-9135

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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

267

2019

291

2020

2021

2022

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

EcologyQ3

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

LimnologyMarine & Freshwater Biology

Scopus Categories

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsAquatic ScienceEcology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Fish Ecology and Management StudiesAquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton DynamicsFreshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecologyAquatic Invertebrate Ecology and BehaviorMarine and coastal ecosystemsSoil and Water Nutrient DynamicsDiatoms and Algae ResearchFish Biology and Ecology StudiesMarine Biology and Ecology ResearchMicrobial Community Ecology and Physiology

Frequently asked questions about Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Is Fundamental and Applied Limnology a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Fundamental and Applied Limnology: 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 Fundamental and Applied Limnology?

Fundamental and Applied Limnology 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 0.26.

Is Fundamental and Applied Limnology indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Fundamental and Applied Limnology is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.