Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Oceanography journal rankings 2018
56 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Oceanography has 56 ranked journals in 2018. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.05 against 1.00, down 0.04 on 2017. A journal needs OJR 1.65 to reach Q1. The top three are Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Limnology and Oceanography Letters, and Limnology and Oceanography.
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 Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
56 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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1Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.32Q1 | 6.37 0.32 up from 2017 | 339 | 70% | $4,070 | ||
2Limnology and Oceanography LettersOAWiley · United States | 2.40Q1 | 4.88 0.38 up from 2017 | 34 | 100% | $3,700 | ||
3Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.39Q1 | 4.66 0.36 up from 2017 | 651 | 82% | $3,530 | ||
4BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.34Q1 | 4.91 0.25 up from 2017 | 1,230 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
5Frontiers in Marine ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.17Q1 | 4.15 0.35 up from 2017 | 825 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
6Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 3.87 0.24 down from 2017 | 398 | 52% | $3,720 | ||
7Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 3.37 0.54 down from 2017 | 328 | 35% | $3,280 | ||
8Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 3.51 0.05 up from 2017 | 330 | 47% | $3,140 | ||
9Journal of Operational OceanographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 2.19 0.19 down from 2017 | 75 | 68% | — | ||
10Marine Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.68 0.05 down from 2017 | 465 | 29% | $3,440 | ||
11OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 1.81Q1 | 3.08 0.24 up from 2017 | 258 | 100% | $500 | ||
12Ocean scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 3.34 0.44 up from 2017 | 218 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
13Journal of Geophysical Research OceansWiley · United States | 1.69Q1 | 3.72 0.40 up from 2017 | 1,534 | 69% | $4,070 | ||
14Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 3.22 0.23 up from 2017 | 415 | 44% | $3,270 | ||
15Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.55Q2 | 3.40 0.06 up from 2017 | 542 | 62% | — | ||
16Estuarine Coastal and Shelf ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.45Q2 | 2.95 0.18 up from 2017 | 1,078 | 35% | $3,410 | ||
17Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.43Q2 | 2.55 0.33 up from 2017 | 572 | 27% | $3,260 | ||
18Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.41Q2 | 2.49 0.05 down from 2017 | 369 | 34% | $3,510 | ||
19Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 2.73 0.44 up from 2017 | 559 | 38% | $3,270 | ||
20Journal of Plankton ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 2.42 0.29 up from 2017 | 302 | 43% | $4,533 | ||
21Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.25Q2 | 2.49 0.01 down from 2017 | 493 | 52% | — | ||
22Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 1.25Q2 | 2.34 0.23 down from 2017 | 228 | 71% | $3,530 | ||
23Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 2.71 0.14 down from 2017 | 589 | 40% | $3,760 | ||
24Methods in OceanographyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 2.73 0.59 up from 2017 | 35 | — | — | ||
25Advances in Oceanography and LimnologyOAPAGEPress (Italy) · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 2.62 1.23 up from 2017 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
26Marine GeodesyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.10 0.77 down from 2017 | 118 | 15% | — | ||
27Ocean DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.06Q2 | 2.12 0.21 up from 2017 | 302 | 22% | $3,690 | ||
28Aquatic BotanyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 2.20 0.05 up from 2017 | 254 | 21% | $3,180 | ||
29Journal of PhycologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.05Q3 | 2.74 0.05 up from 2017 | 329 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
30Journal of Sea ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.98Q3 | 1.92 0.07 down from 2017 | 283 | 43% | $2,610 | ||
31ALGAEOAKorean Society of Phycology · South Korea | 0.96Q3 | 2.88 0.89 up from 2017 | 87 | 100% | — | ||
32European Journal of PhycologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.94Q3 | 2.74 0.49 up from 2017 | 132 | 96% | — | ||
33OceanologiaOAElsevier BV · Poland | 0.94Q3 | 2.03 0.54 up from 2017 | 140 | 100% | — | ||
34Marine EcologyWiley · Germany | 0.92Q3 | 1.65 0.06 up from 2017 | 213 | 18% | $3,560 | ||
35Perspectives in PhycologyGermany | 0.73Q3 | 1.91 0.67 down from 2017 | 37 | 29% | — | ||
36Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q3 | 1.48 0.09 down from 2017 | 78 | 38% | — | ||
37PhycologiaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.73Q3 | 1.46 0.07 down from 2017 | 261 | 5% | — | ||
38Dynamics of Atmospheres and OceansElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.71Q3 | 1.56 0.02 down from 2017 | 105 | 31% | $3,000 | ||
39Helgoland Marine ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.70Q3 | 1.29 0.10 up from 2017 | 74 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
40Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 0.68Q3 | 1.02 0.02 up from 2017 | 55 | 14% | — | ||
41Botanica MarinaDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.61Q3 | 0.90 0.22 down from 2017 | 170 | 26% | $2,712 | ||
42The International Journal of Ocean and Climate SystemsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 1.25 0.73 up from 2017 | 39 | — | $900 | ||
43Cryptogamie AlgologieFrance | 0.59Q4 | 1.13 0.05 down from 2017 | 66 | 18% | — | ||
44African Journal of Marine ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.54Q4 | 0.95 0.27 down from 2017 | 177 | 35% | — | ||
45Phycological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.50Q4 | 1.23 0.31 up from 2017 | 124 | 12% | $3,800 | ||
46Journal of OceanographySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.48Q4 | 0.67 0.10 down from 2017 | 490 | 24% | $4,090 | ||
47Acta Oceanologica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.48Q4 | 0.93 0.04 up from 2017 | 526 | 4% | $3,090 | ||
48Chinese Journal of Oceanology and LimnologySpringer Nature · China | 0.45Q4 | 0.80 0.23 up from 2017 | 395 | 0% | — | ||
49Journal of Ocean University of ChinaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.42Q4 | 0.88 0.18 up from 2017 | 400 | 2% | $2,990 | ||
50Open Journal of Marine ScienceOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.71 0.12 up from 2017 | 117 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Oceanography highlighted.
- Geophysics143
- Atmospheric Science91
- Paleontology76
- Oceanography56
- Earth-Surface Processes16
- Geology13
- Geochemistry and Petrology8
- Space and Planetary Science4
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.
18 additional Oceanography 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
- 56
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,751 +7.1% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.05 -11.9% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 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.