Zebrafish

Zebrafish is published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc. 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 Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications, Fish Ecology and Management Studies and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, together about 44.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Zebrafish is the only peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the central role of zebrafish and other aquarium species as models for the study of vertebrate development, evolution, toxicology, and human disease. Due to its prolific reproduction and the external development of the transparent embryo, the zebrafish is a prime model for genetic and developmental studies. While genetically more distant from humans, the vertebrate zebrafish nevertheless has comparable organs and tissues, such as heart, kidney, pancreas, bones, and cartilage. Zebrafish introduced the new section TechnoFish, which highlights these innovations for the general zebrafish community. TechnoFish features two types of articles: TechnoFish Previews: Important, generally useful technical advances or valuable transgenic lines TechnoFish Methods: Brief descriptions of new methods, reagents, or transgenic lines that will be of widespread use in the zebrafish community Zebrafish coverage includes: Comparative genomics and evolution Molecular/cellular mechanisms of cell growth Genetic analysis of embryogenesis and disease Toxicological and infectious disease models Models for neurological disorders and aging New methods, tools, and experimental approaches Zebrafish also includes research with other aquarium species such as medaka, Fugu, and Xiphophorus.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-ZOOLOGY

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Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

1.21LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

2.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.37LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

38LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

73OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

634OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.45OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

8.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

9.17%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

28LetPub · 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)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

2004

ISSN

1545-8547

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub