Journal rankings · indicator year 2003

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Subfield ranking · 2003

Ocean Engineering journal rankings 2003

30 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering

Indicator year

Ocean Engineering has 30 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.13 on 2002 to 0.76, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.32. The top three are SPE Journal, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, and Water Policy.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.

3% of Engineering

Median OJR

The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.

The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.

The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.

0.76+0.13 vs 2002

This subfieldAll 0.75World 1.00

Open-access journals

Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.

20%

All fields: 13%

Median listed APC

Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.

$3,790

Median positive listed APC: $3,790 among 13 journals. 17 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Engineering (16)

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30 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access

APC (list price)

Publisher country

Ocean Engineering ranking, 2003
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.	OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. OJR	Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.	Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.	Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal.	List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed.	The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003.
1SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States	2.19Q1	1.65 0.07 up from 2002	145	0%	—
2IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States	1.89Q1	1.52 0.08 up from 2002	202	6%	$2,645
3Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing	1.72Q1	0.69 0.24 up from 2002	164	6%	—
4SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States	1.52Q1	0.82 0.24 down from 2002	180	0%	—
5Journal of Petroleum Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands	1.49Q1	1.05 0.19 up from 2002	235	1%	$3,210
6Transport in Porous MediaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands	1.41Q1	1.10 0.07 down from 2002	253	9%	$3,790
7Computational GeosciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands	1.32Q1	0.64 0.14 down from 2002	59	5%	$3,290
8Journal of Ship ResearchSociety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers · United States	1.32Q1	0.68 0.11 up from 2002	70	0%	—
9Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom	1.26Q2	0.84 0.40 up from 2002	92	7%	$2,950
10Journal of Marine Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan	1.14Q2	0.71 0.46 up from 2002	50	10%	$4,090
11SPE Drilling & CompletionUnited States	1.12Q2	0.42 0.06 up from 2002	100	0%	—
12International Journal of Water Resources DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom	0.86Q2	0.33 0.01 down from 2002	135	0%	—
13International Shipbuilding ProgressOAIOS Press · Netherlands	0.81Q2	0.38 0.33 up from 2002	48	0%	$4,150
14Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic EngineeringASM International · United States	0.79Q2	0.48 0.12 up from 2002	86	0%	—
15Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom	0.76Q2	0.62 0.18 up from 2002	351	4%	$4,150
16Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands	0.75Q3	0.42 0.16 up from 2002	81	2%	$3,790
17Petrophysics – The SPWLA Journal of Formation Evaluation and Reservoir DescriptionUnited States	0.74Q3	0.64 0.09 up from 2002	61	0%	—
18International Journal of Offshore and Polar EngineeringInternational Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers · United States	0.72Q3	0.48 0.10 up from 2002	85	0%	—
19Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	0.69Q3	0.38 0.10 up from 2002	146	5%	$3,550
20Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvellesOAEDP Sciences · France	0.55Q3	0.49 0.07 up from 2002	135	100%	—
21Subsurface Sensing Technologies and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · Netherlands	0.51Q3	0.54 0.13 up from 2002	89	0%	—
22Journal of Energy Resources TechnologyASM International · United States	0.50Q3	0.29 0.08 down from 2002	120	5%	—
23Natural Resources ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands	0.47Q3	0.56 0.04 up from 2002	68	4%	$3,790
24Journal of marine science and technologyNational Taiwan Ocean University · Taiwan	0.33Q4	0.21 0.06 up from 2002	52	100%	—
25Petroleum Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States	0.30Q4	0.38 0.12 up from 2002	236	2%	—
26Chuanbo lixueChina Ship Scientific Research Center · China	0.12Q4	0.05 0.05 up from 2002	139	0%	—
27Journal of Marine Science and ApplicationSpringer Science+Business Media · China	0.09Q4	0.03no 2002 value	32	0%	$4,190	—
28Polish Maritime ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland	0.07Q4	0.00 0.02 down from 2002	65	100%	$539
29Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime EngineeringThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom	0.05Q4	0.03no change	70	14%	—
30CT&F - Ciencia Tecnología y FuturoOAColombia	0.04Q4	0.14 0.04 up from 2002	30	100%	—

Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

11 additional Ocean Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals: 30
Window papers (baseline): 20,265 +41.3% from indicator year 2000
Median OJR: 0.756 +25.1% from indicator year 2000
Rising journals (2025): 8

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.

Category by indicator year
Measure	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Ranked journals	24	27	30	30	32	34	37	39	41	40	45	46	50	56	62	68	67	71	75	75	74	74	74	74	72	71
Window papers (baseline)	14,340	16,820	18,245	20,265	21,474	23,452	25,645	27,751	31,076	34,470	37,828	41,237	45,206	49,374	53,126	55,220	55,145	53,690	53,406	55,439	58,666	62,156	64,375	65,678	65,717	67,746
Median OJR	0.60	0.71	0.63	0.756	0.78	0.764	0.79	0.86	0.724	0.94	0.89	0.92	0.88	0.73	0.699	0.740	0.737	0.738	0.692	0.67	0.693	0.720	0.716	0.686	0.687	0.698

How to read these rankings

OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator: A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
Quartiles: Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
Impact factor (2-year): Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
Rank ranges: Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.