Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Oceanography journal rankings 2003
47 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Oceanography has 47 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2002 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.80. The top three are Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Limnology and Oceanography, and Progress In Oceanography.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
47 ranked journals
Filters
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. | 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. | Compare |
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1Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 4.37Q1 | 4.40 0.22 down from 2002 | 311 | 67% | $4,070 | ||
2Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 3.61Q1 | 3.72 0.27 up from 2002 | 631 | 62% | $3,530 | ||
3Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 2.72 0.33 down from 2002 | 218 | 6% | $3,720 | ||
4Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 2.97 0.50 down from 2002 | 342 | 9% | $3,270 | ||
5Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 2.82 0.37 down from 2002 | 671 | 7% | $3,760 | ||
6Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 2.89 0.48 up from 2002 | 250 | 6% | $3,280 | ||
7Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 1.60 0.12 down from 2002 | 383 | 4% | $3,260 | ||
8Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.47 0.14 up from 2002 | 659 | 45% | — | ||
9Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 2.48no change | 49 | 2% | $3,140 | ||
10Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 1.83 0.08 up from 2002 | 289 | 9% | $3,510 | ||
11Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 1.79 0.33 down from 2002 | 598 | 7% | $3,270 | ||
12Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 1.80Q1 | 1.57 0.42 down from 2002 | 114 | 15% | — | ||
13EstuariesSpringer Nature · United States | 1.74Q2 | 1.78 0.19 up from 2002 | 290 | 1% | — | ||
14Journal of Plankton ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.74Q2 | 1.99 0.34 up from 2002 | 374 | 27% | $4,533 | ||
15Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.63Q2 | 1.87 0.20 up from 2002 | 450 | 49% | — | ||
16Journal of Sea ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.62Q2 | 1.60 0.19 up from 2002 | 170 | 7% | $2,610 | ||
17OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 1.60Q2 | 1.13 0.27 up from 2002 | 145 | 100% | $500 | ||
18Estuarine Coastal and Shelf ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.54Q2 | 1.58 0.12 up from 2002 | 399 | 5% | $3,410 | ||
19Journal of PhycologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 1.99 0.01 up from 2002 | 466 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
20Aquatic BotanyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.43Q2 | 1.40 0.24 up from 2002 | 258 | 5% | $3,180 | ||
21Dynamics of Atmospheres and OceansElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q2 | 0.78 0.31 down from 2002 | 94 | 9% | $3,000 | ||
22PhycologiaTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.20 0.10 down from 2002 | 231 | 0% | — | ||
23Journal of OceanographySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 1.35 0.38 up from 2002 | 203 | 0% | $4,090 | ||
24Oceanologica ActaEDP Sciences · France | 1.06Q2 | 1.03 0.05 up from 2002 | 158 | 28% | — | ||
25Marine Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.04Q3 | 1.78 0.60 up from 2002 | 424 | 3% | $3,440 | ||
26European Journal of PhycologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.99Q3 | 1.33 0.38 up from 2002 | 216 | 92% | — | ||
27OpheliaTaylor & Francis · Denmark | 0.86Q3 | 1.06 0.32 up from 2002 | 86 | 0% | — | ||
28Helgoland Marine ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.78Q3 | 0.90 0.10 down from 2002 | 85 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
29Botanica MarinaDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.70Q3 | 0.86 0.19 down from 2002 | 197 | 4% | $2,712 | ||
30Marine EcologyWiley · Germany | 0.62Q3 | 0.59 0.17 down from 2002 | 104 | 7% | $3,560 | ||
31SarsiaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.62 0.18 down from 2002 | 133 | 7% | — | ||
32Records of the Australian MuseumOAAustralian Museum · Australia | 0.57Q3 | 0.66 0.07 down from 2002 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
33Plankton biology and ecologyJapan | 0.57Q3 | 0.68 0.10 up from 2002 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
34Senckenbergiana maritimaE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.56Q3 | 1.17 0.85 up from 2002 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
35Cryptogamie AlgologieFrance | 0.54Q3 | 0.71 0.10 up from 2002 | 63 | 0% | — | ||
36Estuarine and Coastal ModelingPublisher not listed | 0.48Q3 | —no 2002 value | 75 | — | — | ||
37Gulf of Mexico ScienceOAUniversity of Southern Mississippi · United States | 0.48Q4 | 0.47 0.08 down from 2002 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
38Benthos researchOAJapan | 0.48Q4 | 0.46no change | 36 | 92% | — | ||
39Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.37Q4 | 0.77 0.19 down from 2002 | 69 | 12% | — | ||
40OceanologiaOAElsevier BV · Poland | 0.37Q4 | 0.71 0.27 up from 2002 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
41Marine GeodesyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.39 0.14 up from 2002 | 69 | 7% | — | ||
42Phycological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.34Q4 | 0.38 0.01 up from 2002 | 212 | 0% | $3,800 | ||
43ALGAEOAKorean Society of Phycology · South Korea | 0.15Q4 | 0.29 0.03 down from 2002 | 104 | 58% | — | ||
44Indian Journal of Marine SciencesPublisher not listed | 0.12Q4 | 0.14 0.02 up from 2002 | 136 | 0% | — | ||
45Chinese Journal of Oceanology and LimnologySpringer Nature · China | 0.12Q4 | 0.22 0.14 up from 2002 | 171 | 0% | — | ||
46Acta Oceanologica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.04Q4 | 0.04no change | 212 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
47Journal of Ocean University of ChinaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.00Q4 | 0.03no 2002 value | 38 | 0% | $2,990 | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Oceanography highlighted.
- Geophysics106
- Atmospheric Science68
- Paleontology53
- Oceanography47
- Earth-Surface Processes10
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Geology6
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
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.
14 additional Oceanography 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.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 47
- Window papers (baseline)
- 26,729 +55.7% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 1.059 +50.8% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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.
| Measure | Year series | 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 | 45 | 45 | 47 | 47 | 50 | 50 | 52 | 47 | 47 | 48 | 46 | 50 | 52 | 54 | 54 | 57 | 55 | 55 | 56 | 56 | 54 | 53 | 52 | 50 | 50 | 50 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 17,172 | 24,444 | 25,447 | 26,729 | 22,276 | 23,151 | 23,470 | 23,736 | 24,792 | 26,735 | 27,757 | 29,268 | 30,112 | 32,038 | 34,050 | 36,182 | 37,065 | 38,250 | 38,751 | 38,838 | 38,407 | 38,046 | 38,345 | 37,535 | 37,030 | 37,438 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.78 | 0.98 | 1.059 | 1.02 | 1.16 | 1.17 | 1.31 | 1.36 | 1.22 | 1.27 | 1.26 | 1.092 | 1.11 | 1.060 | 1.19 | 1.062 | 1.093 | 1.05 | 1.03 | 0.96 | 0.84 | 0.82 | 0.83 | 0.81 | 0.79 |
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.