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Marine Pollution Bulletin

Elsevier Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1847

ISSN1879-3363

SJR Q1✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

1.465

H-Indexi

298

SNIPi

1.2

Total Worksi

27,801

Total Citationsi

898,822

2yr Mean Citednessi

4.19

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Environmental Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Aquatic Science; Oceanography; Pollution.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1847

FrequencyMonthly, 2018-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications27,801

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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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?

Elsevier Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1879-3363

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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

861

47k

2019

1.1k

44k

2020

1.2k

39k

2021

1.1k

27k

2022

1.3k

23k

2023

1.4k

14k

2024

1.5k

6.4k

2025

489

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 ScienceQ1

OceanographyQ1

PollutionQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Environmental SciencesMarine & Freshwater Biology

Scopus Categories

OceanographyAquatic SciencePollution

Frequently asked questions about Marine Pollution Bulletin

Is Marine Pollution Bulletin a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Marine Pollution Bulletin: 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 Pollution Bulletin?

Marine Pollution Bulletin 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 4.19.

Is Marine Pollution Bulletin indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Marine Pollution Bulletin is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Marine Pollution Bulletin?