Journal of Plankton Research
Last updated ISSN 0142-7873
Journal of Plankton Research is published by Oxford University Press in earth and planetary sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,533.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Plankton Research concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Marine and fisheries research
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0142-7873, 1464-3774 |
| Subject area | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,533 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,960 |
| Publishing since | 1979 |
| Journal website | plankt.oxfordjournals.org |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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