Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Oceanography journal rankings 2024
50 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Oceanography has 50 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.15. The top three are Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and Limnology and Oceanography Letters.
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 Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
50 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 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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1Ocean-Land-Atmosphere ResearchOAPublisher not listed | 2.74Q1 | 7.36 1.03 up from 2023 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
2Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 2.37Q1 | 7.20 1.06 down from 2023 | 390 | 73% | $4,070 | ||
3Limnology and Oceanography LettersOAWiley · United States | 1.67Q1 | 5.32 0.30 up from 2023 | 189 | 100% | $3,700 | ||
4BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 4.92 0.66 down from 2023 | 912 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
5Ocean scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.50Q1 | 4.01 1.46 down from 2023 | 277 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
6Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 1.48Q1 | 4.37 0.73 down from 2023 | 686 | 80% | $3,530 | ||
7Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 4.20 0.83 down from 2023 | 448 | 66% | $3,720 | ||
8Journal of Operational OceanographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 2.67 2.14 down from 2023 | 30 | 88% | — | ||
9Journal of Geophysical Research OceansWiley · United States | 1.23Q1 | 3.95 0.61 down from 2023 | 1,293 | 73% | $4,070 | ||
102021 OES China Ocean Acoustics (COA)Publisher not listed | 1.23Q1 | —no 2023 value | 232 | — | — | ||
11Frontiers in Marine ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.18Q1 | 3.47 0.14 down from 2023 | 6,795 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
12All EarthOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.17Q1 | 2.98 0.20 down from 2023 | 63 | 100% | $1,459 | ||
13Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 3.41 1.02 down from 2023 | 261 | 50% | $3,140 | ||
14Marine Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 3.55 0.26 up from 2023 | 832 | 40% | $3,440 | ||
15Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 3.01 0.11 up from 2023 | 221 | 61% | $3,760 | ||
16Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.01Q2 | 2.98 0.73 down from 2023 | 202 | 48% | $3,280 | ||
17Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.00Q2 | 3.01 0.21 down from 2023 | 535 | 27% | — | ||
18Estuarine Coastal and Shelf ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 0.98Q2 | 2.92no change | 1,019 | 56% | $3,410 | ||
19OceanologiaOAElsevier BV · Poland | 0.96Q2 | 2.85 0.32 down from 2023 | 142 | 100% | — | ||
20Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.95Q2 | 2.74 0.37 down from 2023 | 243 | 45% | $3,510 | ||
21Journal of Sea ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 3.19 0.86 up from 2023 | 252 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
22Aquatic BotanyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 2.92 0.46 up from 2023 | 233 | 54% | $3,180 | ||
23Journal of PhycologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 3.36 0.12 up from 2023 | 277 | 72% | $3,900 | ||
24Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.86Q2 | 2.63 0.05 up from 2023 | 396 | 45% | $3,260 | ||
25Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 2.24 0.31 down from 2023 | 426 | 53% | $3,270 | ||
26Ocean DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.80Q3 | 2.40 0.48 down from 2023 | 156 | 49% | $3,690 | ||
27Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 0.79Q3 | 2.26 0.63 down from 2023 | 182 | 80% | $3,530 | ||
28Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.75Q3 | 2.34 0.18 down from 2023 | 326 | 30% | — | ||
29Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.72Q3 | 2.02 0.20 down from 2023 | 268 | 59% | $3,270 | ||
30Dynamics of Atmospheres and OceansElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.72Q3 | 2.51 0.15 up from 2023 | 137 | 34% | $3,000 | ||
31Journal of Plankton ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 2.14 0.18 up from 2023 | 216 | 71% | $4,533 | ||
32OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 0.66Q3 | 1.79 0.52 down from 2023 | 277 | 100% | $500 | ||
33Marine GeodesyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.65Q3 | 1.68 0.56 down from 2023 | 81 | 19% | — | ||
34Marine EcologyWiley · Germany | 0.62Q3 | 1.87 0.07 down from 2023 | 142 | 58% | $3,560 | ||
35Journal of OceanographySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.58Q3 | 1.56 0.06 up from 2023 | 130 | 63% | $4,090 | ||
36European Journal of PhycologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 1.78 0.16 down from 2023 | 97 | 33% | — | ||
37Ocean Science JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.49Q3 | 1.55 0.02 up from 2023 | 121 | 16% | $3,090 | ||
38African Journal of Marine ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.48Q3 | 1.57 0.04 down from 2023 | 100 | 34% | — | ||
39ALGAEOAKorean Society of Phycology · South Korea | 0.48Q4 | 2.69 0.41 down from 2023 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
40Acta Oceanologica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.47Q4 | 1.42 0.02 up from 2023 | 515 | 3% | $3,090 | ||
41PhycologiaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.46Q4 | 1.65 0.31 up from 2023 | 189 | 27% | — | ||
42Journal of Ocean University of ChinaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.44Q4 | 1.34 0.14 down from 2023 | 468 | 1% | $2,990 | ||
43Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.44Q4 | 1.53 0.31 up from 2023 | 57 | 63% | — | ||
44Journal of Oceanology and LimnologySpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.44Q4 | 1.41 0.04 down from 2023 | 491 | 6% | $2,990 | ||
45Botanica MarinaDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.42Q4 | 1.32 0.38 down from 2023 | 148 | 34% | $2,712 | ||
46Cryptogamie AlgologieFrance | 0.34Q4 | 1.41 0.37 up from 2023 | 37 | 63% | — | ||
47Records of the Australian MuseumOAAustralian Museum · Australia | 0.34Q4 | 0.82 0.09 up from 2023 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
48Plankton and Benthos ResearchOAJapan | 0.30Q4 | 0.96 0.20 up from 2023 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
49Water WavesBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.29Q4 | 0.92 0.46 up from 2023 | 35 | 68% | $3,490 | ||
50Phycological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.25Q4 | 0.98 0.39 down from 2023 | 74 | 46% | $3,800 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Oceanography highlighted.
- Geophysics144
- Atmospheric Science85
- Paleontology73
- Oceanography50
- Earth-Surface Processes17
- Geology9
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science3
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.
13 additional Oceanography 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
- 50
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,030 -2.7% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.81 -3.9% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 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.