African Journal of Marine Science

The African Journal of Marine Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all disciplines of marine science. It was established in 1983 as the South African Journal of Marine Science and obtained its current name in 2003. It is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the National Inquiry Services Centre (South Africa). The editor-in-chief is Sheldon Dudley (Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries).

African Journal of Marine Science

Discipline	Marine sciences
Language	English
Edited by	Sheldon Dudley
Publication details
Former name(s)	South African Journal of Marine Science
History	1983–present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis on behalf of the National Inquiry Services Centre
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.183 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Afr. J. Mar. Sci.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1814-232X (print) 1814-2338 (web)
LCCN	2011250748
OCLC no.	834309269
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts^[1]
• BIOSIS Previews^[2]
• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences^[2]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[2]
• Scopus^[3]
• The Zoological Record^[2]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.183.^[4]