Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Ocean Engineering journal rankings 2023
74 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Ocean Engineering has 74 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.69, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, and Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 Engineering598
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering341
- Civil and Structural Engineering270
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics96
- Building and Construction92
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering44
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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Journal of Safety Science and ResilienceOAElsevier BV · China | 2.16Q1 | 3.92 3.68 down from 2022 | 94 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
2Journal of Petroleum Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 5.12 0.37 up from 2022 | 3,804 | — | $3,210 | ||
3Journal of Natural Gas Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 5.27 0.21 down from 2022 | 1,403 | — | $3,450 | ||
4Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 4.82 0.41 up from 2022 | 1,077 | 26% | $2,950 | ||
5Natural Resources ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 5.20 0.69 down from 2022 | 533 | 14% | $3,790 | ||
6Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 5.14 0.22 down from 2022 | 5,420 | 21% | $4,150 | ||
7IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.53Q1 | 4.72 0.89 up from 2022 | 226 | 32% | $2,645 | ||
8Petroleum ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.52Q1 | 4.91 0.92 up from 2022 | 153 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
9Global Oceans 2020: Singapore – U.S. Gulf CoastPublisher not listed | 1.52Q1 | —no 2022 value | 521 | — | — | ||
10Journal of International Maritime Safety Environmental Affairs and ShippingOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 2.46 1.00 down from 2022 | 61 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
11International Journal of Water Resources DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 2.16 0.99 down from 2022 | 164 | 63% | — | ||
12WMU Journal of Maritime AffairsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.26Q1 | 3.22 0.06 up from 2022 | 89 | 75% | $3,290 | ||
13PetroleumOAElsevier BV · China | 1.26Q1 | 3.64 0.18 down from 2022 | 167 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
14CapillarityOAHong Kong SAR China | 1.25Q1 | 4.23 2.09 down from 2022 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
15SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States | 1.21Q1 | 3.51 0.52 down from 2022 | 712 | 10% | — | ||
16Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.20Q1 | 4.34 0.64 down from 2022 | 894 | 24% | $3,790 | ||
17Water Resources and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q1 | 3.37 0.88 up from 2022 | 53 | 30% | $3,798 | ||
18Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.09Q1 | 2.13 0.20 down from 2022 | 234 | 50% | $3,550 | ||
19Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production TechnologyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.08Q1 | 2.95 0.37 up from 2022 | 757 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
20Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.07Q2 | 2.20 0.18 up from 2022 | 111 | 51% | $3,990 | ||
21Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.05Q2 | 3.35 0.15 down from 2022 | 4,554 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
22Upstream Oil and Gas TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 2.85 0.26 up from 2022 | 77 | 23% | $2,060 | ||
23International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.01Q2 | 2.79 0.25 up from 2022 | 204 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
24BrodogradnjaOAFaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture · Croatia | 0.96Q2 | 4.20 1.90 up from 2022 | 96 | 100% | — | ||
25Geoenergy Science and EngineeringElsevier BV | 0.96Q2 | 2.69no 2022 value | 115 | 14% | $3,640 | — | |
26Computational GeosciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.93Q2 | 2.45 0.24 down from 2022 | 255 | 40% | $3,290 | ||
27Journal of Marine Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.92Q2 | 2.90 0.52 up from 2022 | 261 | 33% | $4,090 | ||
28Journal of Marine Science and ApplicationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.91Q2 | 2.19 0.06 down from 2022 | 177 | 21% | $4,190 | ||
29Ship Technology ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.52 0.73 down from 2022 | 45 | 56% | — | ||
30Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean AffairsTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.83Q2 | 2.26 0.81 up from 2022 | 81 | 17% | — | ||
31SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States | 0.83Q2 | 2.04 0.51 down from 2022 | 205 | 8% | — | ||
31Transport in Porous MediaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.83Q2 | 2.85 0.09 up from 2022 | 482 | 54% | $3,790 | ||
33SPE Drilling & CompletionUnited States | 0.81Q2 | 1.96 0.01 up from 2022 | 149 | 12% | — | ||
34Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing | 0.78Q2 | 1.99 0.02 up from 2022 | 286 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Marine Engineering & TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 2.92 1.05 up from 2022 | 40 | 78% | — | ||
36Ships and Offshore StructuresTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 1.81 0.28 down from 2022 | 525 | 12% | — | ||
37China Ocean EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.69Q2 | 1.89 0.17 up from 2022 | 245 | 7% | $3,190 | ||
38International Maritime HealthOAVia Medica · Poland | 0.68Q3 | 1.40 0.57 down from 2022 | 145 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of Energy Resources TechnologyASM International · United States | 0.67Q3 | 2.64 0.29 down from 2022 | 942 | 16% | — | ||
40Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.65Q3 | 1.62 0.06 up from 2022 | 253 | 24% | — | ||
41Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvellesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.62Q3 | 2.20 0.37 up from 2022 | 167 | — | — | ||
42International Marine Energy JournalOAUnited Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 1.21 0.02 down from 2022 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
43Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M Journal of Engineering for the Maritime EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.65 0.16 down from 2022 | 222 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
44Polish Maritime ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.57Q3 | 2.61 0.65 up from 2022 | 189 | 100% | $539 | ||
45Maritime Technology and ResearchOAChiang Mai University · Thailand | 0.55Q3 | 1.83 0.89 up from 2022 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
46SPE Production & OperationsUnited States | 0.54Q3 | 1.52 0.02 up from 2022 | 185 | 13% | — | ||
47Marine Systems & Ocean TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.53Q3 | 1.28 0.25 down from 2022 | 51 | 30% | $3,290 | ||
48Journal of Ship ResearchSociety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers · United States | 0.50Q3 | 1.05 0.15 down from 2022 | 84 | 0% | — | ||
49Petroleum Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.49Q3 | 1.47 0.25 down from 2022 | 540 | 5% | — | ||
50Water Economics and PolicyWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.49Q3 | 1.17 0.18 down from 2022 | 67 | 17% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Ocean Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering598
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering341
- Civil and Structural Engineering270
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics96
- Building and Construction92
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering44
- Media Technology24
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 additional Ocean Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 74
- Window papers (baseline)
- 65,678 +12.0% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.686 -1.1% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.