About the Journal

Started in 1972, this (Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences: IJMS; Indian J Geo-Mar Sci) multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access, monthly periodical with e-ISSN: 2582-6727 is devoted to the publication of communications relating to various facets of research in Marine sciences. The articles should contribute significantly to Physical oceanography, including hydrodynamics, climate change, satellite oceanography, etc.; Chemical oceanography, including biogeochemical cycles, marine pollution, etc.; Biological oceanography, including aquatic biology, ecology, fisheries, biodiversity & systematics, etc.; Geological oceanography, including geochemistry, micropalaeontology, marine archaeology, marine geotechnics, etc.; Marine instrumentation/engineering, naval architecture, etc. For more details on subject areas, please visit here. Therefore, original research, review articles and book reviews of general significance to marine sciences, excluding core geosciences, which are written clearly and well organized according to the IJMS manuscript preparation and submission guidelines will be given preference. Authors are required to read the ‘Instruction to Authors’ guidelines thoroughly before preparing the manuscript.

Impact Factor of IJMS is 0.32 (JCR 2024).

Instructions To Authors

CSIR-NIScPR Policy on AI

Current Issue

Vol. 54 No. 04 (2025): IJMS [April 2025]
Published: 2026-06-02

Full Issue

Research Articles

  • The ocean heat content in the northwest Indian Ocean region

    I A Maiyza, T M El-Geziry, A S Dabbous, H I Maiyza
    175-182
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.56042/ijms.v54i04.16358

  • Evaluating arsenic and heavy metal contamination in estuarine sediments of the Southern Caspian Sea, Iran

    H Bagheri
    183-194
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.56042/ijms.v54i04.16377

  • Diversity and assemblage pattern of finfish and shellfish along the Sitakunda coast, Bay of Bengal

    S I Ara, M Nasiruddin, M M Sarker, M A Azadi
    195-206
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.56042/ijms.v54i04.16916

Short Communications

  • Length-weight relationships of five migratory fish species from the Narmada estuary, Gujarat, India

    D Bhakta, B K Das, S P Kamble, S Solanki, G Chandra, A Pandit, S Samanta
    207-212
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.56042/ijms.v54i04.16086

  • Occurrence of three ornamental butterflyfishes (Acanthuriformes: Chaetodontidae) from the West Bengal coast, India

    D Ray, D Roy, T Khatua, B Santra, S S Mishra, Anil Mohapatra
    213-216
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.56042/ijms.v54i04.15885
View All Issues

APC, Licensing and Copyright Policy

Article Processing Charges (APC): CSIR-NIScPR does not levy Article Processing Charges (APCs) or Article Submission Charges.

Licensing: cc  Except where otherwise noted, the Articles on this site are licensed under Creative Commons License: Creative Commons Attribution-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

Copyright Policy: Once published, the copyright of the article/paper will be transferred from the author to the publisher.