Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
Oceanography journal rankings 2005
50 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Oceanography has 50 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR rose 0.15 on 2004 to 1.16, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.54. The top three are Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Limnology and Oceanography, and Progress In Oceanography.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. 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 2002–2004, the window the 2005 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)
50 ranked journals
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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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005. | Compare |
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1Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.74Q1 | 5.71 1.64 up from 2004 | 391 | 62% | $4,070 | ||
2Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.82Q1 | 3.51 0.15 down from 2004 | 653 | 55% | $3,530 | ||
3Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 2.66 0.12 down from 2004 | 209 | 9% | $3,720 | ||
4Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.14Q1 | 3.14 0.76 up from 2004 | 618 | 49% | — | ||
5Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 2.06Q1 | 2.35 0.02 down from 2004 | 49 | 52% | $3,530 | ||
6Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 2.30 0.30 down from 2004 | 325 | 11% | $3,280 | ||
7Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 2.45 0.06 down from 2004 | 130 | 6% | $3,140 | ||
8Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.20 0.48 down from 2004 | 373 | 8% | $3,270 | ||
9EstuariesSpringer Nature · United States | 1.57Q1 | 1.84 0.16 up from 2004 | 350 | 6% | — | ||
10Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.56Q1 | 1.83 0.02 down from 2004 | 441 | 3% | $3,260 | ||
11Marine Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 1.78 0.44 down from 2004 | 387 | 10% | $3,440 | ||
12Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 1.54 1.18 down from 2004 | 703 | 9% | $3,760 | ||
13European Journal of PhycologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 2.36 0.29 down from 2004 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
14Ocean DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.51Q2 | 1.73 0.20 up from 2004 | 90 | 2% | $3,690 | ||
15Journal of OceanographySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.47Q2 | 1.61 0.27 down from 2004 | 263 | 1% | $4,090 | ||
16Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q2 | 1.26 0.61 down from 2004 | 405 | 14% | $3,510 | ||
17Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 1.45Q2 | 1.65 0.09 down from 2004 | 101 | 20% | — | ||
18Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.42Q2 | 2.06 0.16 down from 2004 | 465 | 50% | — | ||
19Estuarine Coastal and Shelf ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.42Q2 | 1.90 0.50 up from 2004 | 700 | 9% | $3,410 | ||
20Journal of Sea ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.38Q2 | 1.56 0.06 up from 2004 | 183 | 10% | $2,610 | ||
21Journal of PhycologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 2.68 0.58 up from 2004 | 462 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
22Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 1.77 0.06 down from 2004 | 763 | 7% | $3,270 | ||
23Aquatic BotanyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.27Q2 | 1.52 0.38 up from 2004 | 278 | 6% | $3,180 | ||
24Marine GeodesyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.23Q2 | 1.32 1.10 down from 2004 | 93 | 0% | — | ||
25Journal of Plankton ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.43 0.02 down from 2004 | 411 | 41% | $4,533 | ||
26Oceanologica ActaEDP Sciences · France | 1.14Q3 | 1.75 0.76 up from 2004 | 102 | — | — | ||
27OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 1.05Q3 | 0.49 0.57 down from 2004 | 164 | 100% | $500 | ||
28Oceans 2003. Celebrating the Past ... Teaming Toward the Future (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37492)Publisher not listed | 1.03Q3 | 0.39 0.30 up from 2004 | 594 | — | — | ||
29Botanica MarinaDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.94Q3 | 1.11 0.14 up from 2004 | 204 | 11% | $2,712 | ||
30PhycologiaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.84Q3 | 1.29 0.01 down from 2004 | 227 | 10% | — | ||
31African Journal of Marine ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.83Q3 | 1.16 0.47 up from 2004 | 67 | 2% | — | ||
32Helgoland Marine ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.81Q3 | 1.16 0.05 up from 2004 | 109 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
33OceanologiaOAElsevier BV · Poland | 0.74Q3 | 0.68 0.28 up from 2004 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
34OpheliaTaylor & Francis · Denmark | 0.70Q3 | 0.71 0.09 down from 2004 | 58 | — | — | ||
35Marine EcologyWiley · Germany | 0.66Q3 | 1.19 0.39 up from 2004 | 100 | 8% | $3,560 | ||
36Dynamics of Atmospheres and OceansElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.56Q3 | 0.91 0.32 down from 2004 | 66 | 14% | $3,000 | ||
37Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 1.29 0.47 up from 2004 | 69 | 16% | — | ||
38Phycological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.48Q3 | 0.78 0.11 up from 2004 | 224 | 3% | $3,800 | ||
39SarsiaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.45Q4 | 0.52 0.01 up from 2004 | 132 | — | — | ||
40Plankton biology and ecologyJapan | 0.43Q4 | 0.84 0.45 up from 2004 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
41Records of the Australian MuseumOAAustralian Museum · Australia | 0.35Q4 | 0.53 0.02 down from 2004 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
42Benthos researchOAJapan | 0.32Q4 | 0.45 0.05 down from 2004 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
43ALGAEOAKorean Society of Phycology · South Korea | 0.20Q4 | 0.24no change | 114 | 57% | — | ||
44Indian Journal of Marine SciencesPublisher not listed | 0.16Q4 | 0.22 0.04 up from 2004 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
45Gulf of Mexico ScienceOAUniversity of Southern Mississippi · United States | 0.15Q4 | 0.31 0.03 up from 2004 | 52 | 92% | — | ||
46Journal of Ocean University of ChinaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.10Q4 | 0.20 0.09 up from 2004 | 114 | 0% | $2,990 | ||
47Acta Oceanologica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.09Q4 | 0.10 0.02 up from 2004 | 344 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
48Chinese Journal of Oceanology and LimnologySpringer Nature · China | 0.05Q4 | 0.13 0.01 up from 2004 | 163 | 0% | — | ||
49Redai haiyang xuebaoChina | 0.02Q4 | 0.02 0.10 down from 2004 | 110 | 0% | — | ||
50Marine Science BulletinState Oceanic Administration (SOA) · China | 0.01Q4 | 0.01no change | 162 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Oceanography highlighted.
- Geophysics110
- Atmospheric Science63
- Paleontology51
- Oceanography50
- Earth-Surface Processes11
- Geology7
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% 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 2002–2004, 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: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 50
- Window papers (baseline)
- 23,151 -9.0% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 1.16 +19.1% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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 |
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| 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.