Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Ocean Engineering journal rankings 2018
75 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Ocean Engineering has 75 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.69, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.26. The top three are SPE Journal, International Journal of Marine Energy, and Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 Engineering518
- Mechanical Engineering367
- Biomedical Engineering281
- Civil and Structural Engineering252
- Aerospace Engineering180
- Control and Systems Engineering131
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction89
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering30
75 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States | 2.84Q1 | 4.64 0.77 up from 2017 | 429 | 7% | — | ||
2International Journal of Marine EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.68Q1 | 2.15 0.42 down from 2017 | 143 | — | — | ||
3Journal of Natural Gas Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 4.49 1.17 up from 2017 | 1,810 | 12% | $3,450 | ||
4OCEANS 2017 - AberdeenPublisher not listed | 2.07Q1 | 0.80no 2017 value | 453 | — | — | — | |
5SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States | 2.00Q1 | 3.27 0.60 up from 2017 | 201 | 5% | — | ||
6PetroleumOAElsevier BV · China | 2.00Q1 | 3.41 0.93 up from 2017 | 180 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
7Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.90Q1 | 2.97 0.78 up from 2017 | 89 | 55% | $3,990 | ||
8OCEANS 2016 - ShanghaiPublisher not listed | 1.86Q1 | 0.91 0.17 up from 2017 | 402 | — | — | ||
9IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.86Q1 | 2.64 0.41 up from 2017 | 327 | 19% | $2,645 | ||
10Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.77 0.43 up from 2017 | 438 | 22% | $2,950 | ||
11SPE Drilling & CompletionUnited States | 1.80Q1 | 2.53 0.93 up from 2017 | 88 | 6% | — | ||
12Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 2.94 0.38 up from 2017 | 1,821 | 25% | $4,150 | ||
13Journal of Petroleum Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 3.61 0.78 up from 2017 | 1,701 | 12% | $3,210 | ||
14Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 3.18 0.05 up from 2017 | 933 | 20% | $3,790 | ||
15International Journal of Water Resources DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.72 0.38 up from 2017 | 228 | 33% | — | ||
16Water Resources and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 1.69 0.11 down from 2017 | 61 | 41% | $3,798 | ||
17Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 1.56 0.17 up from 2017 | 288 | 21% | $3,550 | ||
18Computational GeosciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 2.31 0.70 down from 2017 | 240 | 47% | $3,290 | ||
19Transport in Porous MediaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 2.23 0.30 down from 2017 | 508 | 37% | $3,790 | ||
20International Journal of e-Navigation and Maritime EconomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 1.33 0.25 up from 2017 | 54 | 0% | — | ||
21International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.16Q2 | 1.72 0.61 up from 2017 | 241 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
22SPE Production & OperationsUnited States | 1.14Q2 | 2.25 0.10 up from 2017 | 152 | 3% | — | ||
23Journal of Ship ResearchSociety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers · United States | 1.06Q2 | 1.19 0.30 down from 2017 | 95 | 21% | — | ||
24Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.03Q2 | 2.06 0.32 up from 2017 | 220 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
25Natural Resources ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.03Q2 | 2.51 0.34 down from 2017 | 93 | 17% | $3,790 | ||
| 0.93Q2 | 1.67 0.31 up from 2017 | 72 | 0% | — | |||
27Journal of Energy Resources TechnologyASM International · United States | 0.90Q2 | 2.92 0.54 up from 2017 | 400 | 7% | — | ||
28Ships and Offshore StructuresTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.48 0.24 up from 2017 | 245 | 16% | — | ||
29Ship Technology ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.42 0.64 up from 2017 | 51 | 9% | — | ||
30Polish Maritime ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.83Q2 | 1.64 0.63 up from 2017 | 316 | 100% | $539 | ||
31Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvellesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.82Q2 | 2.37 0.37 up from 2017 | 117 | 100% | — | ||
32Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M Journal of Engineering for the Maritime EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.19 0.53 up from 2017 | 147 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
33Water Economics and PolicyWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.76Q2 | 1.16 0.40 up from 2017 | 104 | 18% | — | ||
34WMU Journal of Maritime AffairsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.76Q2 | 1.26 0.56 up from 2017 | 57 | 52% | $3,290 | ||
35Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing | 0.75Q2 | 1.16 0.22 up from 2017 | 246 | 28% | — | ||
36Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production TechnologyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.72Q2 | 1.43 0.46 up from 2017 | 267 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
37Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.70Q2 | 0.98 0.08 down from 2017 | 230 | 10% | — | ||
38Journal of Marine Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.69Q2 | 1.02 0.25 up from 2017 | 458 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
39Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean AffairsTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.65Q3 | 0.74 0.39 up from 2017 | 65 | 21% | — | ||
40Journal of Marine Science and ApplicationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.61Q3 | 0.95 0.30 up from 2017 | 177 | 10% | $4,190 | ||
41Journal of Marine Engineering & TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.92 0.14 down from 2017 | 89 | 48% | — | ||
42Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime EngineeringThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.83 0.14 down from 2017 | 56 | 41% | — | ||
43Journal of Ocean and Wind EnergyInternational Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers | 0.56Q3 | 0.63 0.34 down from 2017 | 32 | — | — | ||
44Underwater Technology The International Journal of the Society for UnderwaterOASociety for Underwater Technology · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.70 0.27 up from 2017 | 71 | 31% | — | ||
45International Journal of Offshore and Polar EngineeringInternational Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.82 0.16 up from 2017 | 144 | 11% | — | ||
46SPE Economics & ManagementUnited States | 0.52Q3 | 1.22 0.04 up from 2017 | 34 | — | — | ||
47TransNav the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea TransportationOAGdynia Maritime University · Poland | 0.51Q3 | 0.66 0.22 up from 2017 | 231 | 100% | $323 | ||
48BrodogradnjaOAFaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture · Croatia | 0.50Q3 | 1.11 0.38 up from 2017 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
49Petroleum ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 0.50Q3 | 0.76 0.76 up from 2017 | 50 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
50Ocean Systems EngineeringSouth Korea | 0.50Q3 | 0.66 0.07 up from 2017 | 57 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Ocean Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering518
- Mechanical Engineering367
- Biomedical Engineering281
- Civil and Structural Engineering252
- Aerospace Engineering180
- Control and Systems Engineering131
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction89
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering30
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality25
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% 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 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 75
- Window papers (baseline)
- 53,406 -3.3% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.692 -6.4% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.