Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Ocean Engineering journal rankings 2012
50 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Ocean Engineering has 50 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.62. The top three are Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, SPE Journal, and OCEANS'10 IEEE SYDNEY.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 Engineering (16)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering395
- Mechanical Engineering279
- Biomedical Engineering201
- Civil and Structural Engineering182
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Mechanics of Materials108
- Control and Systems Engineering102
- Computational Mechanics95
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering68
- Building and Construction58
- Ocean Engineering50
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
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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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Journal of Natural Resources Policy ResearchRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.32Q1 | 1.12 4.42 down from 2011 | 99 | 10% | — | ||
2SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States | 2.49Q1 | 2.20 0.07 down from 2011 | 267 | 4% | — | ||
3OCEANS'10 IEEE SYDNEYPublisher not listed | 2.44Q1 | 0.74 0.03 up from 2011 | 323 | — | — | ||
4SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States | 2.40Q1 | 2.29 0.31 up from 2011 | 222 | 0% | — | ||
5Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.17Q1 | 2.69 0.12 up from 2011 | 551 | 15% | $3,790 | ||
6Computational GeosciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 2.39 0.03 up from 2011 | 143 | 15% | $3,290 | ||
7Journal of Ship ResearchSociety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers · United States | 1.85Q1 | 1.13 0.26 up from 2011 | 67 | 2% | — | ||
8Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 1.66no change | 469 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
9SPE Production & OperationsUnited States | 1.75Q1 | 1.87 0.63 up from 2011 | 157 | 3% | — | ||
10SPE Economics & ManagementUnited States | 1.70Q1 | 1.59 0.47 up from 2011 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
11IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.69Q1 | 2.02 0.20 up from 2011 | 222 | 4% | $2,645 | ||
12Journal of Marine Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.68Q1 | 1.33 0.24 up from 2011 | 118 | 9% | $4,090 | ||
13Transport in Porous MediaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.62Q1 | 1.93 0.12 down from 2011 | 564 | 19% | $3,790 | ||
14Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 0.94 0.07 down from 2011 | 193 | 85% | $3,550 | ||
15Journal of Petroleum Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q2 | 1.33 0.08 down from 2011 | 509 | 4% | $3,210 | ||
16Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvellesOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.49Q2 | 1.79 0.08 down from 2011 | 174 | 100% | — | ||
17Journal of Natural Gas Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q2 | 1.62 0.16 up from 2011 | 116 | 3% | $3,450 | ||
18International Journal of Water Resources DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 1.20 0.09 down from 2011 | 146 | 6% | — | ||
19Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 1.40 0.20 down from 2011 | 138 | 12% | $2,950 | ||
20Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing | 1.36Q2 | 1.44 0.29 up from 2011 | 206 | 19% | — | ||
21SPE Drilling & CompletionUnited States | 1.31Q2 | 1.06 0.36 up from 2011 | 182 | 0% | — | ||
22Underwater Technology The International Journal of the Society for UnderwaterOASociety for Underwater Technology · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 1.18 0.66 up from 2011 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
23Journal of marine science and technologyNational Taiwan Ocean University · Taiwan | 1.08Q2 | 1.08 0.22 up from 2011 | 238 | 95% | — | ||
| 0.95Q2 | —no 2011 value | 181 | — | — | |||
25Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.88Q2 | 0.78 0.23 down from 2011 | 158 | 0% | — | ||
26Natural Resources ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.87Q3 | 1.11 0.82 down from 2011 | 77 | 9% | $3,790 | ||
27Ships and Offshore StructuresTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.69 0.35 up from 2011 | 115 | 5% | — | ||
28Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M Journal of Engineering for the Maritime EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.65no change | 90 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
29Journal of Energy Resources TechnologyASM International · United States | 0.71Q3 | 1.66 0.66 up from 2011 | 120 | 5% | — | ||
| 0.65Q3 | 0.72 0.01 up from 2011 | 52 | 0% | — | |||
31Ship Technology ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.52 0.22 up from 2011 | 48 | 7% | — | ||
32Journal of Basic & Applied SciencesOACanada | 0.60Q3 | 0.54 0.20 down from 2011 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
33China Ocean EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.58Q3 | 0.47 0.03 down from 2011 | 96 | 2% | $3,190 | ||
34International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 0.57Q3 | 0.49 0.05 up from 2011 | 147 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
35International Journal of Offshore and Polar EngineeringInternational Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers · United States | 0.56Q3 | 0.43 0.08 up from 2011 | 86 | 0% | — | ||
36Journal of Marine Science and ApplicationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.54Q3 | 0.48 0.19 up from 2011 | 184 | 2% | $4,190 | ||
37WMU Journal of Maritime AffairsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.53Q3 | 0.47 0.13 down from 2011 | 43 | 55% | $3,290 | ||
38Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime EngineeringThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 0.59 0.05 up from 2011 | 66 | 0% | — | ||
39Polish Maritime ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.43Q4 | 0.54 0.02 up from 2011 | 126 | 100% | $539 | ||
40International Journal of Oil Gas and Coal TechnologyInderscience Publishers · Switzerland | 0.41Q4 | 0.37 0.09 down from 2011 | 67 | 0% | — | ||
41Petroleum Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q4 | 0.41 0.01 down from 2011 | 656 | 4% | — | ||
42Journal of Ship Production and DesignUnited States | 0.37Q4 | 0.24 0.10 down from 2011 | 49 | 5% | — | ||
43International journal of ocean system engineeringOASouth Korea | 0.37Q4 | 0.26no 2011 value | 31 | 97% | — | — | |
44Journal of Marine Engineering & TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.37Q4 | 0.38 0.18 up from 2011 | 39 | — | — | ||
45Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean AffairsTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.30Q4 | 0.12 0.07 up from 2011 | 38 | 3% | — | ||
46EngineeringOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.27Q4 | 0.27 0.05 up from 2011 | 373 | 100% | — | ||
47Brazilian Journal of Petroleum and GasOABrazil | 0.18Q4 | 0.28 0.16 down from 2011 | 62 | 93% | — | ||
48CT&F - Ciencia Tecnología y FuturoOAColombia | 0.17Q4 | 0.33 0.19 up from 2011 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
49Chuanbo lixueChina Ship Scientific Research Center · China | 0.11Q4 | 0.09 0.02 up from 2011 | 391 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.09Q4 | 0.09 0.05 down from 2011 | 155 | 94% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Ocean Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering395
- Mechanical Engineering279
- Biomedical Engineering201
- Civil and Structural Engineering182
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Mechanics of Materials108
- Control and Systems Engineering102
- Computational Mechanics95
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering68
- Building and Construction58
- Ocean Engineering50
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Automotive Engineering23
- Media Technology23
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
23 additional Ocean Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 50
- Window papers (baseline)
- 45,206 +31.1% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.88 -6.5% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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 | 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.