Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Oceanography journal rankings 2006
52 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Oceanography has 52 ranked journals in 2006. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.17 against 1.00, unchanged on 2005. A journal needs OJR 1.60 to reach Q1. The top three are Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Limnology and Oceanography, and Progress In Oceanography.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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)
52 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.88Q1 | 5.56 0.15 down from 2005 | 366 | 74% | $4,070 | ||
2Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.82Q1 | 3.88 0.36 up from 2005 | 659 | 52% | $3,530 | ||
3Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 3.23 0.56 up from 2005 | 191 | 7% | $3,720 | ||
4BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.23Q1 | 2.83 1.41 up from 2005 | 40 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
5Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 2.96 0.66 up from 2005 | 345 | 9% | $3,280 | ||
6Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.60 0.25 up from 2005 | 98 | 44% | $3,530 | ||
7EstuariesSpringer Nature · United States | 1.83Q1 | 2.22 0.39 up from 2005 | 309 | — | — | ||
8Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.39 0.19 up from 2005 | 383 | 11% | $3,270 | ||
9Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 2.43 0.60 up from 2005 | 395 | 10% | $3,260 | ||
10Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 2.67 0.22 up from 2005 | 149 | 3% | $3,140 | ||
11Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 2.08 0.54 up from 2005 | 574 | 17% | $3,760 | ||
12Marine Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 2.37 0.59 up from 2005 | 277 | 21% | $3,440 | ||
13Journal of PhycologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 2.80 0.12 up from 2005 | 417 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
14Journal of Sea ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q2 | 1.97 0.42 up from 2005 | 177 | 12% | $2,610 | ||
15Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.48Q2 | 2.20 0.94 down from 2005 | 544 | 60% | — | ||
16Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.47Q2 | 2.07 0.30 up from 2005 | 796 | 5% | $3,270 | ||
17Estuarine Coastal and Shelf ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.45Q2 | 2.03 0.13 up from 2005 | 815 | 11% | $3,410 | ||
18Ocean DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.43Q2 | 1.24 0.49 down from 2005 | 127 | 19% | $3,690 | ||
19European Journal of PhycologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 1.62 0.74 down from 2005 | 114 | 97% | — | ||
20Aquatic BotanyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 1.67 0.15 up from 2005 | 288 | 7% | $3,180 | ||
21Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.39Q2 | 1.68 0.37 down from 2005 | 443 | 41% | — | ||
22Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 1.35Q2 | 1.37 0.28 down from 2005 | 115 | 24% | — | ||
23Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 1.87 0.61 up from 2005 | 338 | 6% | $3,510 | ||
24Journal of Plankton ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 1.82 0.38 up from 2005 | 413 | 38% | $4,533 | ||
25Marine GeodesyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.28Q2 | 1.44 0.12 up from 2005 | 98 | 5% | — | ||
26OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.30 0.81 up from 2005 | 186 | 99% | $500 | ||
27Oceanologica ActaEDP Sciences · France | 1.14Q3 | —no 2005 value | 64 | — | — | ||
28Journal of OceanographySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.97Q3 | 1.56 0.06 down from 2005 | 281 | 2% | $4,090 | ||
29PhycologiaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q3 | 1.24 0.05 down from 2005 | 227 | 1% | — | ||
30African Journal of Marine ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.96Q3 | 1.48 0.31 up from 2005 | 131 | 3% | — | ||
31Helgoland Marine ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.85Q3 | 1.19 0.03 up from 2005 | 121 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
32Oceans 2003. Celebrating the Past ... Teaming Toward the Future (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37492)Publisher not listed | 0.81Q3 | 0.26 0.13 down from 2005 | 594 | — | — | ||
33Botanica MarinaDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.80Q3 | 1.22 0.11 up from 2005 | 195 | 6% | $2,712 | ||
34Marine EcologyWiley · Germany | 0.80Q3 | 0.98 0.21 down from 2005 | 79 | 29% | $3,560 | ||
35Dynamics of Atmospheres and OceansElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.77Q3 | 0.93 0.02 up from 2005 | 67 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
36Phycological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.63Q3 | 1.10 0.33 up from 2005 | 212 | 4% | $3,800 | ||
37SarsiaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 0.90 0.38 up from 2005 | 86 | — | — | ||
38Records of the Australian MuseumOAAustralian Museum · Australia | 0.48Q3 | 0.39 0.13 down from 2005 | 56 | 88% | — | ||
39OpheliaTaylor & Francis · Denmark | 0.48Q3 | 0.54 0.17 down from 2005 | 41 | — | — | ||
40Gulf of Mexico ScienceOAUniversity of Southern Mississippi · United States | 0.47Q4 | 0.56 0.25 up from 2005 | 59 | 83% | — | ||
41Plankton biology and ecologyJapan | 0.45Q4 | 0.56 0.28 down from 2005 | 31 | — | — | ||
42Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.42Q4 | 0.92 0.37 down from 2005 | 70 | 21% | — | ||
43Senckenbergiana maritimaE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.33Q4 | 0.73 0.41 up from 2005 | 30 | 11% | — | ||
44IERS Technical NotePublisher not listed | 0.32Q4 | 0.15 0.32 down from 2005 | 32 | 0% | — | ||
45Acta Oceanologica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.16Q4 | 0.18 0.07 up from 2005 | 397 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
46Journal of Ocean University of ChinaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.14Q4 | 0.24 0.04 up from 2005 | 139 | 0% | $2,990 | ||
47Indian Journal of Marine SciencesPublisher not listed | 0.14Q4 | 0.14 0.07 down from 2005 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
48ALGAEOAKorean Society of Phycology · South Korea | 0.14Q4 | 0.18 0.06 down from 2005 | 126 | 51% | — | ||
49Chinese Journal of Oceanology and LimnologySpringer Nature · China | 0.12Q4 | 0.23 0.10 up from 2005 | 175 | 0% | — | ||
50Redai haiyang xuebaoChina | 0.07Q4 | 0.08 0.06 up from 2005 | 161 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Oceanography highlighted.
- Geophysics112
- Atmospheric Science66
- Paleontology53
- Oceanography52
- Earth-Surface Processes10
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Geology7
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
12 additional Oceanography journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 52
- Window papers (baseline)
- 23,470 -12.2% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 1.17 +10.0% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.