Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Oceanography journal rankings 2016
55 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Oceanography has 55 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.13 on 2015 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.59. The top three are Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Biogeosciences, and Journal of Operational Oceanography.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
55 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.39Q1 | 6.07 0.06 up from 2015 | 325 | 79% | $4,070 | ||
2BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.79Q1 | 5.05 0.55 down from 2015 | 1,466 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
3Journal of Operational OceanographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 4.38 2.96 up from 2015 | 47 | 76% | — | ||
4Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.46Q1 | 3.83 0.28 down from 2015 | 533 | 82% | $3,530 | ||
5Frontiers in Marine ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.40Q1 | 3.86 1.05 up from 2015 | 205 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
6OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.91 0.22 down from 2015 | 267 | 100% | $500 | ||
7Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 3.88 0.03 up from 2015 | 362 | 42% | $3,280 | ||
8Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 3.91 0.49 up from 2015 | 483 | 53% | $3,720 | ||
9Ocean scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.15Q1 | 3.73 0.56 down from 2015 | 202 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
10Marine Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 3.60 0.16 up from 2015 | 410 | 30% | $3,440 | ||
11Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.54 0.40 down from 2015 | 290 | 57% | $3,140 | ||
12Journal of Geophysical Research OceansWiley · United States | 1.89Q1 | 3.54 0.31 down from 2015 | 1,475 | 73% | $4,070 | ||
13Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 3.13 0.01 down from 2015 | 389 | 41% | $3,270 | ||
14Methods in OceanographyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 3.08 0.56 up from 2015 | 45 | 58% | — | ||
15Estuarine Coastal and Shelf ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.57Q2 | 2.72 0.13 down from 2015 | 956 | 33% | $3,410 | ||
16Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 1.55Q2 | 2.52 0.09 up from 2015 | 200 | 71% | $3,530 | ||
17Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q2 | 2.55 0.20 down from 2015 | 461 | 30% | $3,510 | ||
18Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.52Q2 | 3.09 0.20 down from 2015 | 530 | 28% | — | ||
19Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q2 | 2.23 0.39 down from 2015 | 629 | 35% | $3,260 | ||
20Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.46Q2 | 2.52 0.06 down from 2015 | 520 | 24% | — | ||
21Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 2.99 0.23 up from 2015 | 732 | 57% | $3,760 | ||
22Journal of Plankton ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 2.53 0.11 up from 2015 | 360 | 39% | $4,533 | ||
23Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q2 | 2.24 0.07 down from 2015 | 776 | 39% | $3,270 | ||
24Journal of Sea ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 2.04 0.10 down from 2015 | 399 | 52% | $2,610 | ||
25Ocean DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.22Q2 | 1.97 0.39 down from 2015 | 307 | 32% | $3,690 | ||
26Journal of PhycologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 2.55 0.25 down from 2015 | 335 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
27Aquatic BotanyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 1.89 0.07 up from 2015 | 294 | 23% | $3,180 | ||
28Marine GeodesyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.06Q2 | 1.64 0.30 up from 2015 | 123 | 11% | — | ||
29ALGAEOAKorean Society of Phycology · South Korea | 1.05Q3 | 1.87 0.27 down from 2015 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
30European Journal of PhycologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q3 | 2.10 0.26 down from 2015 | 149 | 97% | — | ||
31Marine EcologyWiley · Germany | 1.02Q3 | 1.92 0.58 up from 2015 | 266 | 25% | $3,560 | ||
32OceanologiaOAElsevier BV · Poland | 0.91Q3 | 1.78 0.74 up from 2015 | 158 | 100% | — | ||
33Cryptogamie AlgologieFrance | 0.90Q3 | 1.86 0.61 up from 2015 | 70 | 4% | — | ||
34Helgoland Marine ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.89Q3 | 1.35 0.20 down from 2015 | 99 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
35PhycologiaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.87Q3 | 2.01 0.57 up from 2015 | 226 | 6% | — | ||
36International Journal of OceanographyHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.78Q3 | 1.17 0.24 up from 2015 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
37Dynamics of Atmospheres and OceansElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.75Q3 | 1.24 0.38 down from 2015 | 67 | 41% | $3,000 | ||
38Journal of EcosystemsHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.74Q3 | 1.18 0.05 down from 2015 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
39Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 0.73Q3 | 1.10 0.23 down from 2015 | 49 | 8% | — | ||
40Botanica MarinaDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.71Q3 | 1.29 0.06 down from 2015 | 139 | 26% | $2,712 | ||
41Phycological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.68Q3 | 1.63 0.24 up from 2015 | 101 | 16% | $3,800 | ||
42African Journal of Marine ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.64Q3 | 1.40 0.22 up from 2015 | 177 | 16% | — | ||
43Acta Oceanologica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.59Q4 | 0.97 0.14 up from 2015 | 495 | 2% | $3,090 | ||
44Ocean Science JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.58Q4 | 0.93 0.12 up from 2015 | 146 | 2% | $3,090 | ||
45Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.50Q4 | 1.07 0.25 up from 2015 | 83 | 32% | — | ||
46Plankton and Benthos ResearchOAJapan | 0.49Q4 | 0.84 0.22 down from 2015 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
47Advances in Oceanography and LimnologyOAPAGEPress (Italy) · United Kingdom | 0.49Q4 | 0.77 0.08 down from 2015 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
48Open Journal of Marine ScienceOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.46Q4 | 0.61 0.13 down from 2015 | 103 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Ocean University of ChinaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.46Q4 | 0.67 0.06 up from 2015 | 344 | 3% | $2,990 | ||
50Chinese Journal of Oceanology and LimnologySpringer Nature · China | 0.39Q4 | 0.74 0.13 up from 2015 | 519 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Oceanography highlighted.
- Geophysics143
- Atmospheric Science90
- Paleontology70
- Oceanography55
- Geology16
- Earth-Surface Processes14
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science3
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
18 additional Oceanography journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 55
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,065 +15.7% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.062 -4.6% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.