Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Oceanography journal rankings 2009
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Oceanography has 48 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR fell 0.14 on 2008 to 1.22, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.61. The top three are Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Biogeosciences, and Limnology and Oceanography.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
48 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.94Q1 | 6.42 0.52 up from 2008 | 317 | 66% | $4,070 | ||
2BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.37Q1 | 5.14 0.25 down from 2008 | 259 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
3Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.94Q1 | 4.30 0.41 down from 2008 | 748 | 58% | $3,530 | ||
4Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 4.15 0.12 down from 2008 | 271 | 24% | $3,720 | ||
5Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.25Q1 | 3.05 0.01 up from 2008 | 400 | 10% | $3,280 | ||
6Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 2.83 0.16 up from 2008 | 719 | 13% | $3,760 | ||
7Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 3.16 0.49 up from 2008 | 386 | 15% | $3,270 | ||
8Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 2.38 0.19 down from 2008 | 580 | 12% | $3,260 | ||
9Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 2.47 0.10 down from 2008 | 902 | 11% | $3,270 | ||
10OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.46 0.93 up from 2008 | 236 | 100% | $500 | ||
11Ocean DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.65Q1 | 1.91 0.88 down from 2008 | 127 | 21% | $3,690 | ||
12Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.31 0.02 down from 2008 | 169 | 49% | $3,530 | ||
13Estuarine Coastal and Shelf ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.54Q2 | 2.29 0.02 down from 2008 | 1,031 | 15% | $3,410 | ||
14Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.54Q2 | 2.17 0.08 up from 2008 | 553 | 13% | $3,510 | ||
15Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.49Q2 | 2.55 0.82 down from 2008 | 571 | 55% | — | ||
16Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 1.43Q2 | 1.89 0.17 down from 2008 | 102 | 23% | — | ||
17Journal of Sea ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.41Q2 | 2.04 0.21 down from 2008 | 197 | 17% | $2,610 | ||
18Journal of PhycologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 2.49 0.50 down from 2008 | 441 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
19Marine Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 2.00 0.41 down from 2008 | 339 | 55% | $3,440 | ||
20Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 2.60no change | 203 | 15% | $3,140 | ||
21Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.25Q2 | 1.93 0.49 down from 2008 | 532 | 42% | — | ||
22Journal of Plankton ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.85 0.03 down from 2008 | 335 | 41% | $4,533 | ||
23Helgoland Marine ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.23Q2 | 1.70 0.69 down from 2008 | 119 | 95% | $2,190 | ||
24Marine EcologyWiley · Germany | 1.22Q2 | 1.78 0.10 up from 2008 | 197 | 35% | $3,560 | ||
25Aquatic BotanyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.22Q3 | 1.84 0.48 up from 2008 | 331 | 4% | $3,180 | ||
26Ocean scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.08Q3 | 2.11 0.93 up from 2008 | 87 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
27European Journal of PhycologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q3 | 2.00 0.28 up from 2008 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
28Dynamics of Atmospheres and OceansElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.98Q3 | 1.49 0.58 down from 2008 | 84 | 7% | $3,000 | ||
29Journal of OceanographySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.94Q3 | 1.53 0.02 up from 2008 | 250 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
30Botanica MarinaDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.83Q3 | 1.19 0.17 up from 2008 | 174 | 11% | $2,712 | ||
31African Journal of Marine ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.83Q3 | 1.71 0.42 up from 2008 | 193 | 6% | — | ||
32PhycologiaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.82Q3 | 1.20 0.01 up from 2008 | 219 | 4% | — | ||
33OceanologiaOAElsevier BV · Poland | 0.80Q3 | 1.05 0.08 down from 2008 | 34 | 42% | — | ||
34Marine GeodesyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.79Q3 | 1.08 0.41 down from 2008 | 58 | 3% | — | ||
35Phycological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.69Q3 | 1.32 0.34 up from 2008 | 106 | 16% | $3,800 | ||
36Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 1.82 0.01 down from 2008 | 88 | 26% | — | ||
37Records of the Australian MuseumOAAustralian Museum · Australia | 0.53Q4 | 0.63 0.30 down from 2008 | 33 | 83% | — | ||
38Plankton and Benthos ResearchOAJapan | 0.43Q4 | 0.86 0.04 up from 2008 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
39Senckenbergiana maritimaE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.32Q4 | 0.56 0.17 down from 2008 | 34 | — | — | ||
40ALGAEOAKorean Society of Phycology · South Korea | 0.26Q4 | 0.42 0.03 up from 2008 | 122 | 85% | — | ||
41Chinese Journal of Oceanology and LimnologySpringer Nature · China | 0.20Q4 | 0.30 0.08 up from 2008 | 210 | 2% | — | ||
42Journal of Ocean University of ChinaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.19Q4 | 0.36 0.12 up from 2008 | 210 | 0% | $2,990 | ||
43Ocean Science JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.12Q4 | 0.16 0.19 down from 2008 | 82 | 5% | $3,090 | ||
44Gulf of Mexico ScienceOAUniversity of Southern Mississippi · United States | 0.08Q4 | 0.17 0.01 up from 2008 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
45Acta Oceanologica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.08Q4 | 0.06 0.02 down from 2008 | 399 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
46Redai haiyang xuebaoChina | 0.06Q4 | 0.11 0.03 up from 2008 | 217 | 0% | — | ||
47The EGU General AssemblyCopernicus Publications | 0.05Q4 | 0.10 0.04 up from 2008 | 252 | 0% | — | ||
48Marine Science BulletinState Oceanic Administration (SOA) · China | 0.05Q4 | 0.07 0.05 up from 2008 | 275 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Oceanography highlighted.
- Geophysics125
- Atmospheric Science77
- Paleontology63
- Oceanography48
- Earth-Surface Processes13
- Geology8
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Space and Planetary Science2
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% 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 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 26,735 +13.9% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.22 +4.7% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.