Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Ocean Engineering journal rankings 2022
74 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Ocean Engineering has 74 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.72, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.12. The top three are Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, OCEANS 2019 - Marseille, and Natural Resources Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 Engineering591
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering334
- Civil and Structural Engineering276
- Aerospace Engineering178
- Control and Systems Engineering124
- Mechanics of Materials122
- Computational Mechanics94
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering43
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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Journal of Safety Science and ResilienceOAElsevier BV · China | 2.16Q1 | 7.60 3.95 down from 2021 | 55 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
2OCEANS 2019 - MarseillePublisher not listed | 1.95Q1 | —no 2021 value | 513 | — | — | ||
3Natural Resources ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 5.89 0.02 down from 2021 | 527 | 11% | $3,790 | ||
4Journal of Natural Gas Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 5.48 0.15 up from 2021 | 1,336 | 14% | $3,450 | ||
5Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 4.41 0.55 up from 2021 | 1,077 | 24% | $2,950 | ||
6Journal of Petroleum Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 4.75 0.22 down from 2021 | 4,000 | 11% | $3,210 | ||
7Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 5.37 0.83 up from 2021 | 3,841 | 20% | $4,150 | ||
8IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.59Q1 | 3.82 0.08 up from 2021 | 271 | 39% | $2,645 | ||
9PetroleumOAElsevier BV · China | 1.52Q1 | 3.83 0.57 down from 2021 | 163 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
10International Journal of Water Resources DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 3.15 1.03 down from 2021 | 210 | 39% | — | ||
11SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States | 1.40Q1 | 4.03 0.10 up from 2021 | 641 | 4% | — | ||
12WMU Journal of Maritime AffairsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.39Q1 | 3.17 0.63 up from 2021 | 88 | 68% | $3,290 | ||
13Global Oceans 2020: Singapore – U.S. Gulf CoastPublisher not listed | 1.39Q1 | 0.68 0.36 up from 2021 | 521 | — | — | ||
14Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 2.34 0.04 up from 2021 | 272 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
15Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.30Q1 | 4.98 0.06 up from 2021 | 813 | 19% | $3,790 | ||
16Petroleum ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.28Q1 | 3.99 1.42 up from 2021 | 137 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
17Water Resources and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q1 | 2.48 0.84 down from 2021 | 50 | 32% | $3,798 | ||
18IOR 2019 – 20th European Symposium on Improved Oil RecoveryPublisher not listed | 1.12Q1 | —no 2021 value | 122 | — | — | ||
19Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production TechnologyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.12Q1 | 2.59 0.59 down from 2021 | 803 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
20Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.10Q2 | 3.50 0.17 up from 2021 | 2,997 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
21International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.08Q2 | 2.54 0.08 down from 2021 | 192 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
22Journal of International Maritime Safety Environmental Affairs and ShippingOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 3.46 1.01 up from 2021 | 50 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
23Ship Technology ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 2.25no change | 40 | 46% | — | ||
24SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States | 1.03Q2 | 2.55 0.57 down from 2021 | 226 | 9% | — | ||
25Upstream Oil and Gas TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 2.60 0.32 down from 2021 | 58 | 19% | $2,060 | ||
26Transport in Porous MediaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.98Q2 | 2.76 0.50 down from 2021 | 464 | 48% | $3,790 | ||
27Computational GeosciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.98Q2 | 2.69 0.97 down from 2021 | 294 | 47% | $3,290 | ||
28Journal of Marine Engineering & TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.87 0.16 up from 2021 | 68 | 35% | — | ||
29Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.90Q2 | 2.02 0.12 up from 2021 | 92 | 45% | $3,990 | ||
30Journal of Marine Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.87Q2 | 2.38 0.87 up from 2021 | 328 | 23% | $4,090 | ||
31Journal of Marine Science and ApplicationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.80Q2 | 2.25 0.58 up from 2021 | 162 | 24% | $4,190 | ||
32Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing | 0.78Q2 | 1.97 0.35 down from 2021 | 273 | 100% | — | ||
33Ships and Offshore StructuresTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 2.09 0.09 up from 2021 | 472 | 14% | — | ||
34SPE Drilling & CompletionUnited States | 0.76Q2 | 1.96 0.26 down from 2021 | 162 | 9% | — | ||
35Journal of Energy Resources TechnologyASM International · United States | 0.75Q2 | 2.93 0.11 down from 2021 | 969 | 9% | — | ||
36Marine Systems & Ocean TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.74Q2 | 1.53 0.05 down from 2021 | 57 | 14% | $3,290 | ||
37International Maritime HealthOAVia Medica · Poland | 0.72Q2 | 1.96 0.41 up from 2021 | 145 | 100% | — | ||
38Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean AffairsTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.71Q3 | 1.45 0.15 up from 2021 | 75 | 5% | — | ||
39Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvellesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.65Q3 | 1.83 0.69 down from 2021 | 255 | — | — | ||
40Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.65Q3 | 1.56 0.32 down from 2021 | 275 | 21% | — | ||
41China Ocean EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.61Q3 | 1.72 0.42 up from 2021 | 233 | 24% | $3,190 | ||
42Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M Journal of Engineering for the Maritime EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 1.81 0.39 up from 2021 | 190 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
43Journal of Ship ResearchSociety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers · United States | 0.56Q3 | 1.20 0.19 up from 2021 | 110 | 5% | — | ||
44Water Economics and PolicyWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.55Q3 | 1.34 0.04 down from 2021 | 56 | 22% | — | ||
45Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime EngineeringThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 1.61 1.55 down from 2021 | 42 | 14% | — | ||
46BrodogradnjaOAFaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture · Croatia | 0.54Q3 | 2.30 0.58 up from 2021 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
47SPE Production & OperationsUnited States | 0.50Q3 | 1.50 0.05 down from 2021 | 186 | 5% | — | ||
48Petroleum Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.49Q3 | 1.72 0.02 down from 2021 | 538 | 2% | — | ||
49TransNav the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea TransportationOAGdynia Maritime University · Poland | 0.48Q3 | 0.94 0.21 down from 2021 | 320 | 100% | $323 | ||
50World Water PolicyWiley · United States | 0.48Q3 | 1.70 0.52 up from 2021 | 56 | 15% | $3,140 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Ocean Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering591
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering334
- Civil and Structural Engineering276
- Aerospace Engineering178
- Control and Systems Engineering124
- Mechanics of Materials122
- Computational Mechanics94
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering43
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality27
- Media Technology24
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
25 additional Ocean Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 74
- Window papers (baseline)
- 64,375 +16.1% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.716 +7.1% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.