Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Oceanography journal rankings 2015
57 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Oceanography has 57 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR rose 0.13 on 2014 to 1.19, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.75. The top three are Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Biogeosciences, and Limnology and Oceanography.
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 Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
57 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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1Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.72Q1 | 6.01 0.47 up from 2014 | 321 | 81% | $4,070 | ||
2BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.16Q1 | 5.59 0.30 down from 2014 | 1,357 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
3Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.58Q1 | 4.11 0.49 down from 2014 | 492 | 82% | $3,530 | ||
4Ocean scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.30Q1 | 4.29 0.94 up from 2014 | 212 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
5OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.13 0.51 up from 2014 | 290 | 100% | $500 | ||
6Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 3.43 0.29 up from 2014 | 383 | 34% | $3,720 | ||
7Frontiers in Marine ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.12Q1 | 2.82no 2014 value | 93 | 100% | $3,801 | — | |
8Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 3.94 0.40 up from 2014 | 244 | 45% | $3,140 | ||
9Marine Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 3.44 0.47 up from 2014 | 362 | 28% | $3,440 | ||
10Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 3.85 0.52 up from 2014 | 269 | 44% | $3,280 | ||
11Journal of Geophysical Research OceansWiley · United States | 2.06Q1 | 3.84 0.51 up from 2014 | 1,024 | 78% | $4,070 | ||
12Limnology & Oceanography Fluids & EnvironmentsWiley · United States | 1.89Q1 | 1.96 0.27 down from 2014 | 38 | — | — | ||
13Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 1.88Q1 | 2.43 0.56 down from 2014 | 210 | 78% | $3,530 | ||
14Methods in OceanographyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 2.53 1.34 up from 2014 | 46 | 29% | — | ||
15Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 3.14 0.07 down from 2014 | 393 | 36% | $3,270 | ||
16Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q2 | 2.75 0.01 up from 2014 | 481 | 17% | $3,510 | ||
17Estuarine Coastal and Shelf ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.64Q2 | 2.85 0.34 up from 2014 | 868 | 26% | $3,410 | ||
18Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 2.75 0.04 down from 2014 | 673 | 38% | $3,760 | ||
19Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.61Q2 | 3.28 0.42 up from 2014 | 499 | 50% | — | ||
20Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q2 | 2.62 0.36 up from 2014 | 634 | 20% | $3,260 | ||
21Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.51Q2 | 2.58 0.21 up from 2014 | 544 | 28% | — | ||
22Journal of Plankton ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 2.42 0.03 down from 2014 | 362 | 63% | $4,533 | ||
23Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.38Q2 | 2.31no change | 793 | 21% | $3,270 | ||
24Journal of PhycologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 2.80 0.01 up from 2014 | 398 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
25Estuarine and Coastal ModelingPublisher not listed | 1.29Q2 | —no 2014 value | 33 | — | — | ||
26Ocean DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.24Q2 | 2.36 0.03 up from 2014 | 280 | 33% | $3,690 | ||
27Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 1.22Q2 | 1.32 0.56 down from 2014 | 69 | 8% | — | ||
28Journal of Sea ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.22Q2 | 2.14 0.12 down from 2014 | 421 | 38% | $2,610 | ||
29Aquatic BotanyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 1.82 0.04 down from 2014 | 306 | 20% | $3,180 | ||
30European Journal of PhycologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.08Q3 | 2.36 0.33 up from 2014 | 131 | 79% | — | ||
31Journal of EcosystemsHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 1.05Q3 | 1.24 0.24 up from 2014 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
32Dynamics of Atmospheres and OceansElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.03Q3 | 1.62 0.31 down from 2014 | 61 | 28% | $3,000 | ||
33Journal of Operational OceanographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.99Q3 | 1.42 0.18 up from 2014 | 32 | 87% | — | ||
34Helgoland Marine ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.97Q3 | 1.55 0.01 down from 2014 | 130 | 92% | $2,190 | ||
35ALGAEOAKorean Society of Phycology · South Korea | 0.87Q3 | 2.14 0.59 up from 2014 | 94 | 100% | — | ||
36PhycologiaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.83Q3 | 1.44 0.14 down from 2014 | 224 | 3% | — | ||
37Marine GeodesyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.82Q3 | 1.34 0.30 down from 2014 | 116 | 7% | — | ||
38Marine EcologyWiley · Germany | 0.81Q3 | 1.34 0.12 up from 2014 | 248 | 21% | $3,560 | ||
39Botanica MarinaDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.78Q3 | 1.35 0.35 down from 2014 | 150 | 20% | $2,712 | ||
40Phycological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.77Q3 | 1.39 0.11 up from 2014 | 114 | 13% | $3,800 | ||
41International Journal of OceanographyHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.75Q3 | 0.92 0.12 down from 2014 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
42African Journal of Marine ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.68Q3 | 1.18 0.16 down from 2014 | 183 | 15% | — | ||
43OceanologiaOAElsevier BV · Poland | 0.65Q3 | 1.04 0.41 down from 2014 | 153 | 100% | — | ||
44Cryptogamie AlgologieFrance | 0.63Q4 | 1.25no change | 81 | 7% | — | ||
45Ocean Science JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.61Q4 | 0.81 0.87 down from 2014 | 126 | 9% | $3,090 | ||
46Advances in Oceanography and LimnologyOAPAGEPress (Italy) · United Kingdom | 0.58Q4 | 0.85 0.03 down from 2014 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
47Acta Oceanologica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.50Q4 | 0.84 0.06 down from 2014 | 409 | 1% | $3,090 | ||
48Open Journal of Marine ScienceOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.49Q4 | 0.73 0.14 down from 2014 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
49Plankton and Benthos ResearchOAJapan | 0.47Q4 | 1.06 0.33 up from 2014 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of OceanographySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.44Q4 | 0.50 0.18 down from 2014 | 457 | 3% | $4,090 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Oceanography highlighted.
- Geophysics142
- Atmospheric Science87
- Paleontology71
- Oceanography57
- Earth-Surface Processes14
- Geology14
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science2
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.
17 additional Oceanography 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
- 57
- Window papers (baseline)
- 36,182 +20.2% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.19 +9.1% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 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.