Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Ocean Engineering journal rankings 2024
72 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Ocean Engineering has 72 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.69, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.11. The top three are IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, and Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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 Engineering604
- Mechanical Engineering372
- Biomedical Engineering346
- Civil and Structural Engineering273
- Aerospace Engineering150
- Control and Systems Engineering138
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics95
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering85
- Ocean Engineering72
- Automotive Engineering42
72 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.03Q1 | 6.63 1.91 up from 2023 | 243 | 31% | $2,645 | ||
2Journal of Safety Science and ResilienceOAElsevier BV · China | 1.81Q1 | 4.21 0.29 up from 2023 | 101 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
3Journal of Petroleum Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.81Q1 | 5.44 0.31 up from 2023 | 2,554 | — | $3,210 | ||
4Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 4.56 0.26 down from 2023 | 1,018 | 39% | $2,950 | ||
5Journal of Natural Gas Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 6.57 1.30 up from 2023 | 855 | — | $3,450 | ||
6Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 5.94 0.80 up from 2023 | 6,931 | 22% | $4,150 | ||
7Natural Resources ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 5.43 0.23 up from 2023 | 499 | 11% | $3,790 | ||
8Petroleum ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.51Q1 | 3.25 1.66 down from 2023 | 153 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
9WMU Journal of Maritime AffairsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.48Q1 | 3.78 0.56 up from 2023 | 89 | 44% | $3,290 | ||
10Geoenergy Science and EngineeringElsevier BV | 1.36Q1 | 4.26 1.57 up from 2023 | 1,198 | 17% | $3,640 | ||
11Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.23Q1 | 2.84 0.65 up from 2023 | 124 | 30% | $3,990 | ||
12Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.23Q1 | 5.26 0.92 up from 2023 | 924 | 21% | $3,790 | ||
13Water Resources and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 2.79 0.58 down from 2023 | 58 | 71% | $3,798 | ||
14CapillarityOAHong Kong SAR China | 1.19Q1 | 3.86 0.37 down from 2023 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
15International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.16Q1 | 4.30 1.51 up from 2023 | 206 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
16Journal of Marine Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.14Q1 | 2.20 0.70 down from 2023 | 186 | 52% | $4,090 | ||
17PetroleumOAElsevier BV · China | 1.14Q1 | 3.57 0.07 down from 2023 | 174 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
18Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production TechnologyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.11Q1 | 3.62 0.67 up from 2023 | 659 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
19International Journal of Water Resources DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.38 0.22 up from 2023 | 138 | 49% | — | ||
20Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.99Q2 | 3.20 0.15 down from 2023 | 5,892 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
21SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States | 0.98Q2 | 3.16 0.35 down from 2023 | 725 | 7% | — | ||
22Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 1.94 0.19 down from 2023 | 211 | 60% | $3,550 | ||
23Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime EngineeringThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 3.48 2.75 up from 2023 | 33 | 12% | — | ||
24Computational GeosciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.87Q2 | 2.57 0.11 up from 2023 | 229 | 35% | $3,290 | ||
25Upstream Oil and Gas TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 3.42 0.57 up from 2023 | 67 | — | $2,060 | ||
26Transport in Porous MediaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.86Q2 | 2.86 0.01 up from 2023 | 490 | 55% | $3,790 | ||
27Journal of Marine Engineering & TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 3.83 0.91 up from 2023 | 47 | 57% | — | ||
28Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing | 0.81Q2 | 2.49 0.50 up from 2023 | 278 | 100% | — | ||
29Journal of International Maritime Safety Environmental Affairs and ShippingOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 2.13 0.33 down from 2023 | 58 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
30BrodogradnjaOAFaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture · Croatia | 0.78Q2 | 3.39 0.81 down from 2023 | 102 | 100% | — | ||
31SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States | 0.77Q2 | 2.14 0.10 up from 2023 | 192 | — | — | ||
32China Ocean EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.76Q2 | 2.29 0.40 up from 2023 | 247 | 3% | $3,190 | ||
33Journal of Marine Science and ApplicationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.73Q2 | 2.32 0.13 up from 2023 | 183 | 18% | $4,190 | ||
34Journal of Energy Resources TechnologyASM International · United States | 0.70Q2 | 2.49 0.15 down from 2023 | 699 | 9% | — | ||
35Maritime Technology and ResearchOAChiang Mai University · Thailand | 0.69Q2 | 1.52 0.31 down from 2023 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
36SPE Drilling & CompletionUnited States | 0.69Q2 | 1.85 0.12 down from 2023 | 117 | — | — | ||
37Polish Maritime ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.68Q3 | 2.92 0.30 up from 2023 | 177 | 100% | $539 | ||
38Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean AffairsTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.66Q3 | 1.45 0.81 down from 2023 | 87 | 12% | — | ||
39Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvellesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.66Q3 | —no 2023 value | 75 | — | — | ||
40Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.65Q3 | 1.76 0.14 up from 2023 | 231 | 15% | — | ||
41International Marine Energy JournalOAUnited Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 1.42 0.21 up from 2023 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
42Ships and Offshore StructuresTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 2.09 0.28 up from 2023 | 480 | 9% | — | ||
43Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M Journal of Engineering for the Maritime EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 1.59 0.06 down from 2023 | 217 | 24% | $4,150 | ||
44World Water PolicyWiley · United States | 0.54Q3 | 1.46 0.48 down from 2023 | 100 | 53% | $3,140 | ||
45Water Economics and PolicyWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.54Q3 | 1.68 0.51 up from 2023 | 87 | 20% | — | ||
46SPE Production & OperationsUnited States | 0.54Q3 | 1.71 0.18 up from 2023 | 146 | — | — | ||
47Ship Technology ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 1.03 0.48 down from 2023 | 45 | 33% | — | ||
48Petroleum Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.46Q3 | 1.59 0.11 up from 2023 | 646 | 3% | — | ||
49Transactions on Maritime ScienceOACroatia | 0.46Q3 | 1.34 0.07 up from 2023 | 133 | 100% | — | ||
50Marine Systems & Ocean TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.45Q3 | 1.74 0.46 up from 2023 | 42 | 11% | $3,290 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Ocean Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering604
- Mechanical Engineering372
- Biomedical Engineering346
- Civil and Structural Engineering273
- Aerospace Engineering150
- Control and Systems Engineering138
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics95
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering85
- Ocean Engineering72
- Automotive Engineering42
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality24
- Media Technology22
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
23 additional Ocean Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 72
- Window papers (baseline)
- 65,717 +5.7% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.687 -4.6% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.