Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Ocean Engineering journal rankings 2017
71 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Ocean Engineering has 71 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are SPE Journal, International Journal of Marine Energy, and SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 Engineering506
- Mechanical Engineering360
- Biomedical Engineering272
- Civil and Structural Engineering250
- Aerospace Engineering181
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction81
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering79
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering27
71 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States | 3.05Q1 | 3.87 0.52 up from 2016 | 392 | 2% | — | ||
2International Journal of Marine EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.99Q1 | 2.56 0.11 down from 2016 | 105 | 52% | — | ||
3SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States | 2.69Q1 | 2.67 1.37 down from 2016 | 211 | 0% | — | ||
4Water Resources and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 1.80 0.07 down from 2016 | 63 | 27% | $3,798 | ||
5IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.10Q1 | 2.23 0.25 down from 2016 | 271 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
6OCEANS 2016 - ShanghaiPublisher not listed | 2.09Q1 | 0.74no 2016 value | 402 | — | — | — | |
7Computational GeosciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 3.01 0.60 up from 2016 | 213 | 34% | $3,290 | ||
8Journal of Natural Gas Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 3.31 0.09 up from 2016 | 1,757 | 14% | $3,450 | ||
9Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.39 0.06 up from 2016 | 273 | 25% | $3,550 | ||
10Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 3.13 0.09 down from 2016 | 1,022 | 16% | $3,790 | ||
11Journal of Petroleum Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 2.84 0.48 up from 2016 | 1,263 | 12% | $3,210 | ||
12International Journal of Water Resources DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.33 0.16 up from 2016 | 222 | 43% | — | ||
13PetroleumOAElsevier BV · China | 1.76Q1 | 2.48 0.32 up from 2016 | 128 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
14Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 2.34 0.24 up from 2016 | 358 | 28% | $2,950 | ||
15Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.70Q1 | 2.19 0.77 up from 2016 | 70 | 41% | $3,990 | ||
16Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.55 0.41 up from 2016 | 1,567 | 27% | $4,150 | ||
17Transport in Porous MediaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.47Q1 | 2.53 0.07 down from 2016 | 513 | 31% | $3,790 | ||
18SPE Drilling & CompletionUnited States | 1.44Q1 | 1.59 0.03 down from 2016 | 103 | 0% | — | ||
19International Journal of e-Navigation and Maritime EconomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.39Q2 | 1.08 0.46 up from 2016 | 48 | 94% | — | ||
20SPE Production & OperationsUnited States | 1.35Q2 | 2.15 0.44 up from 2016 | 121 | 0% | — | ||
21Natural Resources ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 2.84 0.62 up from 2016 | 84 | 18% | $3,790 | ||
22Journal of Ship ResearchSociety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers · United States | 1.10Q2 | 1.49 0.40 up from 2016 | 101 | 19% | — | ||
23Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvellesOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.07Q2 | 2.00 0.79 up from 2016 | 156 | 100% | — | ||
| 1.02Q2 | 1.35 0.16 down from 2016 | 81 | 0% | — | |||
25Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.98Q2 | 1.74 0.19 up from 2016 | 194 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
26International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 0.92Q2 | 1.11 0.14 up from 2016 | 250 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
27Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing | 0.91Q2 | 0.94 0.19 down from 2016 | 280 | 17% | — | ||
28Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.89Q2 | 1.06 0.03 down from 2016 | 213 | 5% | — | ||
29Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production TechnologyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.89Q2 | 0.96 0.05 down from 2016 | 208 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
30Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M Journal of Engineering for the Maritime EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 0.66 0.55 down from 2016 | 131 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
31Journal of Ocean and Wind EnergyInternational Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers | 0.83Q2 | 0.97 0.05 up from 2016 | 32 | — | — | ||
32Journal of Energy Resources TechnologyASM International · United States | 0.82Q2 | 2.38 0.33 up from 2016 | 331 | 7% | — | ||
33Journal of Natural Resources Policy ResearchRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 0.23 0.87 down from 2016 | 68 | — | — | ||
34WMU Journal of Maritime AffairsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.79Q2 | 0.70 0.02 down from 2016 | 64 | 60% | $3,290 | ||
35SPE Economics & ManagementUnited States | 0.76Q2 | 1.17 0.15 down from 2016 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
36Ships and Offshore StructuresTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 1.24 0.11 down from 2016 | 239 | 14% | — | ||
37Journal of Marine Engineering & TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 1.06 0.39 up from 2016 | 42 | 69% | — | ||
38Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime EngineeringThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 0.98 0.41 up from 2016 | 61 | 50% | — | ||
39Ship Technology ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.78 0.07 up from 2016 | 48 | 13% | — | ||
40Journal of Marine Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.63Q3 | 0.77 0.02 up from 2016 | 429 | 18% | $4,090 | ||
41Polish Maritime ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.62Q3 | 1.01 0.11 down from 2016 | 193 | 100% | $539 | ||
42Water Economics and PolicyWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.61Q3 | 0.76 0.18 up from 2016 | 76 | 16% | — | ||
43International Maritime HealthOAVia Medica · Poland | 0.59Q3 | 0.88 0.01 up from 2016 | 128 | 100% | — | ||
44Marine Systems & Ocean TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.54Q3 | 0.84 0.18 up from 2016 | 31 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
45BrodogradnjaOAFaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture · Croatia | 0.51Q3 | 0.74no 2016 value | 34 | 100% | — | ||
46Resources and EnvironmentOAUnited States | 0.50Q3 | 0.45 0.29 down from 2016 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
47International Journal of Offshore and Polar EngineeringInternational Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers · United States | 0.49Q3 | 0.66 0.34 up from 2016 | 117 | 9% | — | ||
48Journal of Marine Science and ApplicationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.46Q3 | 0.65no change | 186 | 6% | $4,190 | ||
49Ocean Systems EngineeringSouth Korea | 0.45Q3 | 0.59no change | 59 | 0% | — | ||
50China Ocean EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.44Q3 | 0.56 0.14 down from 2016 | 238 | 4% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Ocean Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering506
- Mechanical Engineering360
- Biomedical Engineering272
- Civil and Structural Engineering250
- Aerospace Engineering181
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction81
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering79
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering27
- Media Technology27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. 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.
23 additional Ocean Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 71
- Window papers (baseline)
- 53,690 +1.1% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.738 +5.6% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.