Scopus has provided new scientometric data on journals for 2024, according to which the journal "Problems of Ichthyology/Journal of Ichthyology" entered the second quartile (Q2).
In 2024, the journal's SJR (an analogue of the impact factor) increased from 0.217 to 0.325, the number of published articles decreased from 128 to 109, the number of citations increased from 176 to 289, the number of cited articles increased from 125 to 162, and the number of citations per article increased from 0.540 to 0.812. International participation (the share of articles with foreign authors) also increased from 8.59 to 14.68%.
The journal "Problems of Ichthyology" has been published under the auspices of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Biological Sciences Division) since 1953. The editor-in-chief of the journal is the scientific director of the IEE RAS, academician of the RAS, doctor of biological sciences Dmitry Sergeevich Pavlov.
The journal is the leading national scientific publication in all areas of ichthyology and biological foundations of fisheries. All articles published in the journal are peer-reviewed and contain original information that is the result of scientific research in taxonomy, evolution, molecular biology, morphology, fauna, zoogeography, genetics, physiology, ecology, behavior, reproduction, embryology, invasions and protection of fish and fisheries biology, as well as some applied aspects. The journal publishes articles on marine, oceanic and freshwater fish from any region of the globe.