Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Oceanography journal rankings 2014
54 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Oceanography has 54 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2013 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.65. The top three are Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Biogeosciences, and Limnology and Oceanography.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
54 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.33Q1 | 5.54 1.00 down from 2013 | 307 | 65% | $4,070 | ||
2BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.31Q1 | 5.89 0.09 up from 2013 | 1,143 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
3Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.55Q1 | 4.60 0.38 up from 2013 | 513 | 63% | $3,530 | ||
4Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 3.14 2.03 down from 2013 | 300 | 36% | $3,720 | ||
5OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 2.22Q1 | 2.62 0.37 down from 2013 | 280 | 100% | $500 | ||
6Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 3.33 0.45 down from 2013 | 234 | 20% | $3,280 | ||
7Journal of Geophysical Research OceansWiley · United States | 1.98Q1 | 3.33 1.02 up from 2013 | 515 | 72% | $4,070 | ||
8Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 3.54 0.54 up from 2013 | 273 | 28% | $3,140 | ||
9Marine Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 2.97 0.28 up from 2013 | 337 | 19% | $3,440 | ||
10Ocean scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.79Q1 | 3.35 0.10 up from 2013 | 200 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
11Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 3.21 0.17 down from 2013 | 363 | 23% | $3,270 | ||
12Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 2.31 0.81 down from 2013 | 873 | 18% | $3,270 | ||
13Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.99 0.57 up from 2013 | 209 | 57% | $3,530 | ||
14Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 2.79 0.86 down from 2013 | 601 | 34% | $3,760 | ||
15Estuarine Coastal and Shelf ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.58Q2 | 2.51 0.27 down from 2013 | 884 | 17% | $3,410 | ||
16Limnology & Oceanography Fluids & EnvironmentsWiley · United States | 1.57Q2 | 2.23 0.64 down from 2013 | 43 | 56% | — | ||
17Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.56Q2 | 2.74 0.04 up from 2013 | 446 | 21% | $3,510 | ||
18Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 2.26 0.14 down from 2013 | 635 | 11% | $3,260 | ||
19Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.42Q2 | 2.86 0.72 down from 2013 | 491 | 53% | — | ||
20Journal of PhycologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 2.79 0.14 up from 2013 | 454 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
21Ocean DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.35Q2 | 2.33 0.05 up from 2013 | 291 | 20% | $3,690 | ||
22Journal of Plankton ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 2.44 0.02 up from 2013 | 347 | 37% | $4,533 | ||
23Journal of Sea ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 2.26 0.42 up from 2013 | 367 | 34% | $2,610 | ||
24Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.21Q2 | 2.37 0.13 up from 2013 | 495 | 41% | — | ||
25Estuarine and Coastal ModelingPublisher not listed | 1.16Q2 | 0.27 0.09 up from 2013 | 33 | — | — | ||
26Aquatic BotanyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 1.86 0.09 down from 2013 | 282 | 19% | $3,180 | ||
27Dynamics of Atmospheres and OceansElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q2 | 1.93 0.21 down from 2013 | 64 | 20% | $3,000 | ||
28Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 1.05Q3 | 1.88 0.31 down from 2013 | 88 | 26% | — | ||
29Marine GeodesyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q3 | 1.64 0.32 up from 2013 | 110 | 12% | — | ||
30Marine EcologyWiley · Germany | 0.93Q3 | 1.22 0.95 down from 2013 | 209 | 21% | $3,560 | ||
31Helgoland Marine ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.89Q3 | 1.56 0.22 up from 2013 | 135 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
32Ocean Science JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.88Q3 | 1.68 0.10 up from 2013 | 108 | 7% | $3,090 | ||
33European Journal of PhycologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 2.04 0.06 down from 2013 | 123 | 94% | — | ||
34Botanica MarinaDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.86Q3 | 1.70 0.45 up from 2013 | 164 | 32% | $2,712 | ||
35African Journal of Marine ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.79Q3 | 1.35 0.05 up from 2013 | 186 | 13% | — | ||
36PhycologiaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.75Q3 | 1.58 0.12 up from 2013 | 232 | 7% | — | ||
37OceanologiaOAElsevier BV · Poland | 0.73Q3 | 1.45 0.04 up from 2013 | 132 | 100% | — | ||
38Cryptogamie AlgologieFrance | 0.72Q3 | 1.25 0.32 up from 2013 | 84 | 4% | — | ||
39International Journal of OceanographyHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.70Q3 | 1.04 0.08 up from 2013 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
40Phycological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.65Q3 | 1.28 0.19 up from 2013 | 107 | 10% | $3,800 | ||
41Advances in Oceanography and LimnologyOAPAGEPress (Italy) · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.88 0.10 down from 2013 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
42ALGAEOAKorean Society of Phycology · South Korea | 0.62Q4 | 1.56 0.15 up from 2013 | 94 | 76% | — | ||
43Journal of OceanographySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.61Q4 | 0.67 0.52 down from 2013 | 386 | 3% | $4,090 | ||
44Acta Oceanologica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.53Q4 | 0.89 0.14 up from 2013 | 312 | 1% | $3,090 | ||
45Open Journal of Marine ScienceOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.49Q4 | 0.87 0.16 down from 2013 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
46Chinese Journal of Oceanology and LimnologySpringer Nature · China | 0.45Q4 | 0.83 0.01 down from 2013 | 435 | 5% | — | ||
47Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.44Q4 | 0.91 0.20 down from 2013 | 92 | 34% | — | ||
48Journal of Ocean University of ChinaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.40Q4 | 0.77 0.28 up from 2013 | 243 | 2% | $2,990 | ||
49Plankton and Benthos ResearchOAJapan | 0.37Q4 | 0.73 0.08 down from 2013 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
50The International Journal of Ocean and Climate SystemsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.29Q4 | 0.54 0.25 up from 2013 | 60 | 86% | $900 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Oceanography highlighted.
- Geophysics138
- Atmospheric Science85
- Paleontology71
- Oceanography54
- Earth-Surface Processes15
- Geology14
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science2
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
21 additional Oceanography journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 54
- Window papers (baseline)
- 34,050 +16.3% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 1.060 -16.0% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.