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Journal of Marine and Island Cultures

Institution for Marine and Island Cultures, Mokpo National University · South Korea · Est. 2012

ISSN2212-6821

SJR Q2✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.236

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.417

Total Worksi

345

Total Citationsi

2,163

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.36

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Anthropology; Cultural Studies; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Nature and Landscape Conservation.

General Information

Country / RegionSouth Korea

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2012

Annual Volume~ 45 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications345

Publisher OrgMokpo National University

OA Since2011

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewPeer review

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Institution for Marine and Island Cultures, Mokpo National University

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2212-6821

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Peer review

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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?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

2019

141

2020

2021

124

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.

AnthropologyQ2

Cultural StudiesQ2

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ3

Nature and Landscape ConservationQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

AnthropologyNature and Landscape ConservationCultural StudiesManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Island Studies and Pacific AffairsCoastal and Marine ManagementDiverse Aspects of Tourism ResearchMarine and Coastal EcosystemsCruise Tourism Development and ManagementPacific and Southeast Asian StudiesCoral and Marine Ecosystems StudiesClimate Change, Adaptation, MigrationAsian Studies and HistoryCoastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Frequently asked questions about Journal of Marine and Island Cultures

Is Journal of Marine and Island Cultures a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal of Marine and Island Cultures: it is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Journal of Marine and Island Cultures?

Journal of Marine and Island Cultures is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.236.

Is Journal of Marine and Island Cultures indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of Marine and Island Cultures is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Journal of Marine and Island Cultures?