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Water Biology and Security

Water biology & security

ISSN-L 2772-7351

Elsevier BV · China · 2021

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APC$1,000
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Earliest year2021

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Topics

Aquaculture disease management and microbiota12% Microplastics and Plastic Pollution10% Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology10% Fish Ecology and Management Studies7% Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth5% Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies4% Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species4% Protist diversity and phylogeny3%

Academic impact

Cited at least once
55%
Top 10% share of citations
50%
Median citations
8

Influential citation share

Influential citation share
2%

Semantic Scholar · 99 DOI

Originality (citation structure)

References shared with peer papers
9%
Self-journal citations
0%

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Integrity

Retracted: 0

Most cited works

  1. Ensuring water purity: Mitigating environmental risks and safeguarding human health 2024 · 143 cites
  2. Rethinking fish biology and biotechnologies in the challenge era for burgeoning genome resources and strengthening food security 2021 · 138 cites
  3. Plastic occurrence, sources, and impacts in Antarctic environment and biota 2022 · 117 cites
  4. Assemblage-based biomonitoring of freshwater ecosystem health via multimetric indices: A critical review and suggestions for improving their applicability 2022 · 107 cites
  5. Methodology for fish biodiversity monitoring with environmental DNA metabarcoding: The primers, databases and bioinformatic pipelines 2022 · 99 cites

Most recent works

  1. Exploring antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquaculture: What have we learned from Bangladesh? 2026 · 14 cites
  2. Accelerated elimination of enrofloxacin and improvement of Cyprinus carpio health via Lactiplantibacillus plantarum YZ2 triggered NRF2 activation 2026 · 2 cites
  3. Pulse versus press in a mining-impacted river: water and sediment quality recovery in the Paraopeba River, Brazil, five years after the Brumadinho tailings dam failure 2026 · 1 cites
  4. Alexandrium catenella blooms driven by extreme thermal anomalies in a fjord system 2026 · 1 cites
  5. Sequential effects of drying and wastewater exposure shape stream biofilm structure and function 2026 · 1 cites

Based on 100 works from OpenAlex (CC0) · method v0.1

Basic information

Publisher
Elsevier BV · China
Organiser
Institute of Water Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · China
Country/Region
China
Subject
Environmental Science
Open access
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License
CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND
Earliest year
2021
DOAJ article records
271
Journal website
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Articles/yr477
h-index24
2-yr mean citedness2.86
Last publication year2026
DOAJ article records271
Open access✓

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Subject classification

Immunology and Microbiology101 Environmental Science81 Agricultural and Biological Sciences62 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology41 Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences1 Science: Biology (General)1
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