Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Ocean Engineering journal rankings 2015
68 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Ocean Engineering has 68 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, International Journal of Marine Energy, and SPE Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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 Engineering471
- Mechanical Engineering336
- Biomedical Engineering248
- Civil and Structural Engineering227
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Control and Systems Engineering125
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics99
- Building and Construction78
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering78
- Ocean Engineering68
- Media Technology29
68 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States | 3.87Q1 | 4.09 1.62 up from 2014 | 149 | 2% | — | ||
2International Journal of Marine EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.63Q1 | 2.80 1.00 up from 2014 | 41 | 46% | — | ||
3SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States | 3.06Q1 | 3.39 0.96 up from 2014 | 316 | 2% | — | ||
4IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.83Q1 | 2.95 0.70 up from 2014 | 271 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
5Computational GeosciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 3.10 0.26 up from 2014 | 187 | 29% | $3,290 | ||
6SPE Intelligent Energy InternationalPublisher not listed | 2.44Q1 | —no 2014 value | 106 | — | — | ||
7Water Resources and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 1.73 0.51 down from 2014 | 40 | 26% | $3,798 | ||
8Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 1.37 0.26 up from 2014 | 232 | 88% | $3,550 | ||
9Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 2.06 0.45 up from 2014 | 229 | 16% | $2,950 | ||
10International Journal of Water Resources DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 2.07 0.39 up from 2014 | 168 | 25% | — | ||
11Journal of Petroleum Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 2.41 0.47 up from 2014 | 764 | 7% | $3,210 | ||
12SPE Drilling & CompletionUnited States | 2.07Q1 | 1.45 0.03 up from 2014 | 131 | 0% | — | ||
13Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 3.00 0.66 down from 2014 | 895 | 18% | $3,790 | ||
14Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.10 0.15 up from 2014 | 924 | 20% | $4,150 | ||
15SPE Production & OperationsUnited States | 1.87Q1 | 2.00 0.17 up from 2014 | 108 | 4% | — | ||
16Journal of Natural Gas Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 3.32 0.51 up from 2014 | 451 | 7% | $3,450 | ||
17Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing | 1.47Q1 | 1.33 0.21 up from 2014 | 251 | 19% | — | ||
18WMU Journal of Maritime AffairsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q2 | 1.03 0.29 up from 2014 | 52 | 45% | $3,290 | ||
19Transport in Porous MediaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.39Q2 | 1.97 0.20 up from 2014 | 494 | 25% | $3,790 | ||
| 1.26Q2 | 1.40 0.49 up from 2014 | 68 | 0% | — | |||
21Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production TechnologyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.12Q2 | 1.13 0.60 up from 2014 | 133 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
22Journal of Ship ResearchSociety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers · United States | 1.06Q2 | 0.89 0.01 up from 2014 | 106 | 3% | — | ||
23Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvellesOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.06Q2 | 1.52 0.41 up from 2014 | 266 | 100% | — | ||
24International Shipbuilding ProgressOAIOS Press · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 1.04 0.59 up from 2014 | 31 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
25Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.04Q2 | 1.15 0.06 up from 2014 | 182 | 4% | — | ||
26Journal of marine science and technologyNational Taiwan Ocean University · Taiwan | 1.03Q2 | —no 2014 value | 40 | — | — | ||
27Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M Journal of Engineering for the Maritime EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 1.16 0.37 up from 2014 | 132 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
28Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.98Q2 | 1.47 1.47 up from 2014 | 36 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
29Ships and Offshore StructuresTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 1.22 0.48 up from 2014 | 179 | 14% | — | ||
30SPE Economics & ManagementUnited States | 0.93Q2 | 1.08 0.38 down from 2014 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
31Journal of Energy Resources TechnologyASM International · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.73 0.11 down from 2014 | 244 | 6% | — | ||
32Journal of Natural Resources Policy ResearchRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 0.99 0.15 up from 2014 | 98 | 15% | — | ||
33Ship Technology ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 0.48 0.16 up from 2014 | 36 | 27% | — | ||
34Natural Resources ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.75Q2 | 1.14 0.17 up from 2014 | 96 | 8% | $3,790 | ||
35TransNav the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea TransportationOAGdynia Maritime University · Poland | 0.73Q3 | 0.59 0.04 up from 2014 | 150 | 100% | $323 | ||
36Polish Maritime ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.72Q3 | 1.06 0.48 up from 2014 | 123 | 100% | $539 | ||
37Journal of Marine Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.72Q3 | 0.73 0.03 down from 2014 | 360 | 8% | $4,090 | ||
38Advances in Plants & Agriculture ResearchMedCrave Group · United States | 0.66Q3 | 0.87no 2014 value | 38 | 85% | — | — | |
39International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 0.66Q3 | 0.86 0.30 up from 2014 | 242 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
402013 OCEANS - San DiegoPublisher not listed | 0.59Q3 | 0.62 0.23 up from 2014 | 265 | — | — | ||
41Journal of Marine Science and ApplicationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.59Q3 | 0.57 0.06 down from 2014 | 184 | 0% | $4,190 | ||
42Resources and EnvironmentOAUnited States | 0.57Q3 | 0.48 0.40 down from 2014 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
43International Journal of Oil Gas and Coal TechnologyInderscience Publishers · Switzerland | 0.57Q3 | 0.62 0.10 down from 2014 | 118 | 0% | — | ||
44International Journal of Offshore and Polar EngineeringInternational Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers · United States | 0.56Q3 | 0.42 0.18 down from 2014 | 78 | 6% | — | ||
45International Maritime HealthOAVia Medica · Poland | 0.55Q3 | 0.80 0.07 down from 2014 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
46Underwater Technology The International Journal of the Society for UnderwaterOASociety for Underwater Technology · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.58 0.35 up from 2014 | 72 | 7% | — | ||
47Marine ScienceOAUnited States | 0.49Q3 | 0.25 0.44 down from 2014 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
48China Ocean EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.46Q3 | 0.61 0.11 up from 2014 | 189 | 1% | $3,190 | ||
49Petroleum Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.42Q3 | 0.55 0.16 up from 2014 | 873 | 4% | — | ||
50Journal of Ship Production and DesignUnited States | 0.40Q3 | 0.35 0.06 up from 2014 | 146 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Ocean Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering471
- Mechanical Engineering336
- Biomedical Engineering248
- Civil and Structural Engineering227
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Control and Systems Engineering125
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics99
- Building and Construction78
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering78
- Ocean Engineering68
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Automotive Engineering24
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
18 additional Ocean Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 68
- Window papers (baseline)
- 55,220 +22.2% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.740 -15.5% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 | 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.