Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Oceanography journal rankings 2019
56 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Oceanography has 56 ranked journals in 2019. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.03 against 1.00, down 0.02 on 2018. A journal needs OJR 1.44 to reach Q1. The top three are Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and Progress In Oceanography.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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
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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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Limnology and Oceanography LettersOAWiley · United States | 2.94Q1 | 6.69 1.80 up from 2018 | 77 | 100% | $3,700 | ||
2Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 2.76Q1 | 5.27 1.10 down from 2018 | 316 | 73% | $4,070 | ||
3Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 4.37 0.50 up from 2018 | 388 | 42% | $3,720 | ||
4BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.03Q1 | 4.49 0.42 down from 2018 | 1,194 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
5OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 2.01Q1 | 3.31 0.23 up from 2018 | 263 | 100% | $500 | ||
6Frontiers in Marine ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.00Q1 | 4.81 0.66 up from 2018 | 1,207 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
7Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 1.94Q1 | 3.97 0.69 down from 2018 | 657 | 83% | $3,530 | ||
8Ocean scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.79Q1 | 3.51 0.17 up from 2018 | 246 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
9Journal of Geophysical Research OceansWiley · United States | 1.72Q1 | 4.28 0.56 up from 2018 | 1,554 | 59% | $4,070 | ||
10Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.93 0.42 up from 2018 | 298 | 56% | $3,140 | ||
11Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.70Q1 | 3.63 0.23 up from 2018 | 524 | 85% | — | ||
12Marine Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 3.11 0.57 down from 2018 | 545 | 47% | $3,440 | ||
13Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 3.18 0.03 down from 2018 | 417 | 39% | $3,270 | ||
14Journal of Operational OceanographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 3.00 0.81 up from 2018 | 72 | 50% | — | ||
15Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.44Q2 | 3.45 0.08 up from 2018 | 281 | 35% | $3,280 | ||
16Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q2 | 2.97 0.42 up from 2018 | 512 | 37% | $3,260 | ||
17Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.32Q2 | 2.75 0.26 up from 2018 | 361 | 39% | $3,510 | ||
18Estuarine Coastal and Shelf ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.31Q2 | 2.69 0.26 down from 2018 | 1,066 | 39% | $3,410 | ||
19Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 1.31Q2 | 2.96 0.62 up from 2018 | 214 | 74% | $3,530 | ||
20Methods in OceanographyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | —no 2018 value | 30 | — | — | ||
21Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q2 | 2.72 0.01 down from 2018 | 454 | 37% | $3,270 | ||
22Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 2.73 0.02 up from 2018 | 535 | 41% | $3,760 | ||
23Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.19Q2 | 2.42 0.07 down from 2018 | 479 | 83% | — | ||
24European Journal of PhycologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 3.32 0.58 up from 2018 | 122 | 75% | — | ||
25ALGAEOAKorean Society of Phycology · South Korea | 1.11Q2 | 3.52 0.64 up from 2018 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
26Advances in Oceanography and LimnologyOAPAGEPress (Italy) · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 3.27 0.65 up from 2018 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
27Ocean DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q2 | 2.29 0.18 up from 2018 | 309 | 33% | $3,690 | ||
28Journal of Plankton ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 2.33 0.08 down from 2018 | 245 | 46% | $4,533 | ||
29Aquatic BotanyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.00Q3 | 1.69 0.51 down from 2018 | 264 | 23% | $3,180 | ||
30OceanologiaOAElsevier BV · Poland | 1.00Q3 | 2.41 0.38 up from 2018 | 148 | 100% | — | ||
31Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 0.97Q3 | 2.16 1.14 up from 2018 | 50 | 10% | — | ||
32Marine GeodesyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.84Q3 | 1.50 0.40 up from 2018 | 87 | 11% | — | ||
33Journal of Sea ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.84Q3 | 1.85 0.07 down from 2018 | 302 | 36% | $2,610 | ||
34Journal of PhycologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.80Q3 | 2.19 0.54 down from 2018 | 329 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
35Marine EcologyWiley · Germany | 0.79Q3 | 1.55 0.10 down from 2018 | 206 | 19% | $3,560 | ||
36Dynamics of Atmospheres and OceansElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.77Q3 | 1.71 0.14 up from 2018 | 112 | 27% | $3,000 | ||
37Helgoland Marine ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.76Q3 | 1.68 0.39 up from 2018 | 68 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
38Perspectives in PhycologyGermany | 0.68Q3 | 1.87 0.05 down from 2018 | 30 | 20% | — | ||
39Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 1.56 0.08 up from 2018 | 85 | 66% | — | ||
40Botanica MarinaDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.65Q3 | 1.56 0.66 up from 2018 | 183 | 46% | $2,712 | ||
41PhycologiaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.71 0.25 up from 2018 | 252 | 30% | — | ||
42Cryptogamie AlgologieFrance | 0.52Q3 | 1.53 0.40 up from 2018 | 72 | 64% | — | ||
43Acta Oceanologica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.50Q4 | 1.21 0.28 up from 2018 | 539 | 2% | $3,090 | ||
44African Journal of Marine ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.47Q4 | 0.93 0.02 down from 2018 | 161 | 27% | — | ||
45Journal of OceanographySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.46Q4 | 1.00 0.33 up from 2018 | 325 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
46Journal of Ocean University of ChinaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.42Q4 | 1.04 0.16 up from 2018 | 442 | 1% | $2,990 | ||
47Ocean Science JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.40Q4 | 0.70 0.09 up from 2018 | 193 | 5% | $3,090 | ||
48Open Journal of Marine ScienceOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.85 0.15 up from 2018 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
49Chinese Journal of Oceanology and LimnologySpringer Nature · China | 0.37Q4 | 0.72 0.08 down from 2018 | 230 | — | — | ||
50Phycological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.34Q4 | 1.04 0.19 down from 2018 | 150 | 26% | $3,800 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Oceanography highlighted.
- Geophysics147
- Atmospheric Science87
- Paleontology77
- Oceanography56
- Earth-Surface Processes17
- Geology10
- Geochemistry and Petrology9
- Space and Planetary Science4
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
15 additional Oceanography journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 56
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,838 +4.8% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.03 -3.2% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.