Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Ocean Engineering journal rankings 2020
74 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Ocean Engineering has 74 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.69, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are 2018 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Workshop (AUV), International Journal of Marine Energy, and IOR 2019 – 20th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 Engineering563
- Mechanical Engineering379
- Biomedical Engineering312
- Civil and Structural Engineering264
- Aerospace Engineering174
- Control and Systems Engineering122
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering36
74 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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12018 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Workshop (AUV)Publisher not listed | 2.48Q1 | 1.33 0.83 up from 2019 | 127 | — | — | ||
2International Journal of Marine EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.40Q1 | —no 2019 value | 54 | — | — | ||
3IOR 2019 – 20th European Symposium on Improved Oil RecoveryPublisher not listed | 1.96Q1 | 0.87no 2019 value | 122 | — | — | — | |
4Journal of Natural Gas Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 5.04 0.57 up from 2019 | 1,061 | 13% | $3,450 | ||
5OCEANS 2019 - MarseillePublisher not listed | 1.87Q1 | 0.69no 2019 value | 513 | — | — | — | |
6Natural Resources ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 4.56 0.68 up from 2019 | 281 | 9% | $3,790 | ||
7SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States | 1.78Q1 | 4.14 0.64 down from 2019 | 453 | 6% | — | ||
8Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.00 0.11 down from 2019 | 319 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
9OCEANS 2017 - AberdeenPublisher not listed | 1.74Q1 | —no 2019 value | 453 | — | — | ||
10International Journal of Water Resources DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.33 0.16 up from 2019 | 189 | 48% | — | ||
11Journal of Petroleum Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 4.62 0.47 up from 2019 | 3,009 | 12% | $3,210 | ||
12Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 4.21 0.59 up from 2019 | 2,538 | 21% | $4,150 | ||
13IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.69Q1 | 3.52 0.38 up from 2019 | 374 | 25% | $2,645 | ||
14PetroleumOAElsevier BV · China | 1.65Q1 | 4.03 1.32 up from 2019 | 160 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
15WMU Journal of Maritime AffairsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 2.80 0.85 up from 2019 | 65 | 53% | $3,290 | ||
16Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 3.33 0.28 up from 2019 | 682 | 26% | $2,950 | ||
17Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 3.77 0.14 up from 2019 | 835 | 19% | $3,790 | ||
18International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.47Q1 | 2.84 0.77 up from 2019 | 195 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
19SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States | 1.44Q1 | 3.18 0.06 up from 2019 | 241 | 0% | — | ||
20Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.25Q2 | 2.13 0.59 up from 2019 | 83 | 40% | $3,990 | ||
21Transport in Porous MediaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 3.14 0.52 up from 2019 | 533 | 43% | $3,790 | ||
22Water Resources and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q2 | 2.51 0.62 up from 2019 | 66 | 50% | $3,798 | ||
23Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.14Q2 | 2.98 0.35 up from 2019 | 698 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
24Computational GeosciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 2.45 0.96 down from 2019 | 290 | 53% | $3,290 | ||
25Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production TechnologyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.99Q2 | 2.41 0.68 up from 2019 | 508 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
26SPE Drilling & CompletionUnited States | 0.99Q2 | 2.03 0.25 down from 2019 | 107 | 8% | — | ||
27SPE Production & OperationsUnited States | 0.98Q2 | 2.15 0.57 down from 2019 | 189 | 3% | — | ||
28Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvellesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.91Q2 | 2.44 0.78 up from 2019 | 208 | 100% | — | ||
29Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing | 0.90Q2 | 1.88 0.54 up from 2019 | 223 | 66% | — | ||
30Petroleum ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 0.79Q2 | 1.67 0.54 up from 2019 | 101 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
| 0.77Q2 | 1.66 0.19 up from 2019 | 153 | 5% | — | |||
32Journal of Energy Resources TechnologyASM International · United States | 0.76Q2 | 3.16 0.07 up from 2019 | 627 | 15% | — | ||
33Water Economics and PolicyWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.76Q2 | 0.85 0.42 down from 2019 | 77 | 10% | — | ||
34Ships and Offshore StructuresTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 1.80 0.29 up from 2019 | 341 | 15% | — | ||
35Journal of Marine Engineering & TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 1.77 0.39 up from 2019 | 132 | 50% | — | ||
36Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.72Q2 | 1.55 0.52 up from 2019 | 296 | 13% | — | ||
37Journal of Marine Science and ApplicationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.70Q2 | 1.30 0.32 up from 2019 | 156 | 55% | $4,190 | ||
38Journal of Marine Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.69Q3 | 1.50 0.23 up from 2019 | 404 | 15% | $4,090 | ||
39Underwater Technology The International Journal of the Society for UnderwaterOASociety for Underwater Technology · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 1.24 0.06 up from 2019 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
40Ship Technology ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 1.37 0.12 up from 2019 | 44 | 31% | — | ||
41Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean AffairsTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.67Q3 | 1.16 0.77 up from 2019 | 54 | 22% | — | ||
42TransNav the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea TransportationOAGdynia Maritime University · Poland | 0.66Q3 | 1.30 0.67 up from 2019 | 276 | 100% | $323 | ||
43Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M Journal of Engineering for the Maritime EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 1.19 0.21 up from 2019 | 180 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
44Journal of Ship ResearchSociety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers · United States | 0.58Q3 | 0.90 0.22 down from 2019 | 87 | 8% | — | ||
45BrodogradnjaOAFaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture · Croatia | 0.57Q3 | 1.79 0.65 up from 2019 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
46Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime EngineeringThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 2.13 0.55 up from 2019 | 37 | 30% | — | ||
47China Ocean EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.49Q3 | 1.14 0.20 up from 2019 | 236 | 3% | $3,190 | ||
48Petroleum Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.48Q3 | 1.46 0.19 up from 2019 | 983 | 3% | — | ||
49Advances in Plants & Agriculture ResearchMedCrave Group · United States | 0.47Q3 | 0.85 0.27 up from 2019 | 175 | — | — | ||
50Marine Systems & Ocean TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.47Q3 | 1.34 0.54 up from 2019 | 50 | 16% | $3,290 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Ocean Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering563
- Mechanical Engineering379
- Biomedical Engineering312
- Civil and Structural Engineering264
- Aerospace Engineering174
- Control and Systems Engineering122
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering36
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
28 additional Ocean Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 74
- Window papers (baseline)
- 58,666 +9.3% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.693 -6.2% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.