Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom is published by Cambridge University Press and is in Zone 4 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and fisheries research and Marine and coastal plant biology, together about 31.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Global and Planetary Change. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK (JMBA) is an international journal, publishing original research and reviews on all aspects of marine biology, to support the aims of the MBA. The topics of present interest for JMBA are: - Marine ecology, behaviour and fisheries; - Biodiversity and population studies of marine ecosystems, especially potential impacts of global warming, ocean acidification and climate change on ecosystem resilience; - Physiology, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology of marine organisms, including microbiology, particularly related to the integrative ecophysiology of marine organisms - Taxonomic syntheses, including molecular phylogenies; - Morphology, life history and developmental biology of marine organisms, especially model systems; - Chemical and physical oceanography, as directly relevant to marine biology; - Marine environmental health, and in particular its relationship to human health and well-being. In addition to papers describing original research, the journal will also publish short reviews and original viewpoints on topics of current marine biological interest.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Marine & Freshwater Biology

Editor-in-chief C. HautonPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 3 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

1.04LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

85Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.35LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.66LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

60LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

148OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

5,974OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.24OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

30.75%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

132LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

3–8 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

1887

ISSN

0025-3154

Electronic ISSN

1469-7769

Society / sponsor

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website