Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Subfield ranking · 2025
Ocean Engineering journal rankings 2025
71 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Ocean Engineering has 71 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.06. No journal’s likely rank range stays within the top 3, so the intro names none.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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 Engineering595
- Mechanical Engineering366
- Biomedical Engineering349
- Civil and Structural Engineering268
- Aerospace Engineering141
- Control and Systems Engineering135
- Mechanics of Materials124
- Computational Mechanics98
- Building and Construction88
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering84
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering42
71 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #8 of 71Journal of Safety Science and ResilienceOAElsevier BV · China | 2.24Q1 | 7.28 3.07 up from 2024 | 120 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #7 of 71IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.97Q1 | 6.42 0.21 down from 2024 | 301 | 21% | $2,645 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 3; likely between #1 and #8 of 71Journal of Natural Gas Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | —no 2024 value | 351 | — | $3,450 | ||
Rank 4; likely between #3 and #8 of 71Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 6.66 0.72 up from 2024 | 8,605 | 19% | $4,150 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 5; likely between #3 and #9 of 71Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 5.28 0.72 up from 2024 | 1,049 | 100% | $2,950 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 6; likely between #2 and #10 of 71PetroleumOAElsevier BV · China | 1.71Q1 | 6.25 2.68 up from 2024 | 118 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 7; likely between #3 and #9 of 71Natural Resources ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 6.25 0.81 up from 2024 | 453 | 11% | $3,790 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #4 and #9 of 71Journal of Petroleum Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | —no 2024 value | 982 | — | $3,210 | ||
Rank 9; likely between #2 and #14 of 71CapillarityOAHong Kong SAR China | 1.58Q1 | 5.74 1.88 up from 2024 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 10; likely between #10 and #15 of 71Geoenergy Science and EngineeringElsevier BV | 1.31Q1 | 4.69 0.43 up from 2024 | 2,089 | 15% | $3,640 | ||
Rank 11; likely between #10 and #15 of 71Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.30Q1 | 5.96 0.70 up from 2024 | 979 | 24% | $3,790 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 12; likely between #9 and #18 of 71Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production TechnologyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.27Q1 | 4.42 0.80 up from 2024 | 433 | 100% | $2,390 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 13; likely between #8 and #23 of 71WMU Journal of Maritime AffairsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.27Q1 | 3.42 0.36 down from 2024 | 79 | 50% | $3,290 | ||
Rank 14; likely between #9 and #27 of 71Journal of Marine Engineering & TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 4.47 0.65 up from 2024 | 91 | 40% | — | ||
Rank 15; likely between #11 and #21 of 71International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.16Q1 | 4.54 0.24 up from 2024 | 178 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
Rank 16; likely between #11 and #26 of 71Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.11Q1 | 2.97 0.13 up from 2024 | 149 | 31% | $3,990 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #11 and #29 of 71International Journal of Water Resources DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.08Q1 | 2.87 0.49 up from 2024 | 109 | 49% | — | ||
Rank 18; likely between #12 and #31 of 71Petroleum ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.06Q1 | 3.16 0.09 down from 2024 | 150 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 19; likely between #13 and #32 of 71Water Resources and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.03Q2 | 3.11 0.32 up from 2024 | 59 | 44% | $3,798 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #18 and #25 of 71Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.00Q2 | 3.43 0.23 up from 2024 | 6,747 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
Rank 21; likely between #8 and #45 of 71Upstream Oil and Gas TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 4.15 0.73 up from 2024 | 33 | — | $2,060 | ||
Rank 22; likely between #15 and #33 of 71BrodogradnjaOAFaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture · Croatia | 0.96Q2 | 3.45 0.06 up from 2024 | 103 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 23; likely between #16 and #33 of 71Journal of Marine Science and ApplicationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.95Q2 | 3.12 0.79 up from 2024 | 243 | 17% | $4,190 | ||
Rank 24; likely between #21 and #31 of 71SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States | 0.91Q2 | 3.39 0.23 up from 2024 | 908 | 5% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 25; likely between #15 and #38 of 71Maritime Technology and ResearchOAChiang Mai University · Thailand | 0.91Q2 | 2.50 0.98 up from 2024 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 26; likely between #16 and #35 of 71Journal of Marine Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.90Q2 | 2.58 0.39 up from 2024 | 167 | 38% | $4,090 | ||
Rank 27; likely between #20 and #34 of 71Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing | 0.88Q2 | 2.57 0.08 up from 2024 | 230 | 100% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 28; likely between #16 and #37 of 71Computational GeosciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 2.41 0.15 down from 2024 | 208 | 41% | $3,290 | ||
Rank 29; likely between #21 and #34 of 71China Ocean EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.87Q2 | 2.64 0.35 up from 2024 | 250 | 1% | $3,190 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 30; likely between #16 and #39 of 71NDTOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | 0.86Q2 | 2.95 1.28 up from 2024 | 40 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #4 and #60 of 71Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime EngineeringThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 3.24 0.24 down from 2024 | 35 | 7% | — | ||
Rank 32; likely between #20 and #40 of 71Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 1.41 0.53 down from 2024 | 168 | 31% | $3,550 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 33; likely between #11 and #48 of 71Marine Systems & Ocean TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.81Q2 | 2.86 1.12 up from 2024 | 41 | 13% | $3,290 | ||
Rank 34; likely between #27 and #37 of 71Transport in Porous MediaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.79Q2 | 2.80 0.07 down from 2024 | 396 | 47% | $3,790 | ||
Rank 35; likely between #20 and #44 of 71Journal of International Maritime Safety Environmental Affairs and ShippingOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 2.57 0.44 up from 2024 | 62 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
Rank 36; likely between #31 and #41 of 71Journal of Energy Resources TechnologyASM International · United States | 0.70Q2 | 2.94 0.45 up from 2024 | 409 | — | — | ||
Rank 37; likely between #29 and #43 of 71SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States | 0.69Q3 | 2.05 0.09 down from 2024 | 142 | — | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 38; likely between #24 and #46 of 71International Marine Energy JournalOAUnited Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 0.91 0.51 down from 2024 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 39; likely between #32 and #44 of 71Polish Maritime ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.65Q3 | 2.70 0.21 down from 2024 | 181 | 100% | $539 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 40; likely between #29 and #45 of 71Ships and Offshore StructuresTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 2.17 0.08 up from 2024 | 544 | 6% | — | ||
Rank 41; likely between #32 and #46 of 71Transactions on Maritime ScienceOACroatia | 0.63Q3 | 1.63 0.29 up from 2024 | 131 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 42; likely between #33 and #46 of 71Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean AffairsTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.60Q3 | 1.52 0.07 up from 2024 | 107 | 12% | — | ||
Rank 43; likely between #33 and #47 of 71SPE Drilling & CompletionUnited States | 0.59Q3 | 2.18 0.33 up from 2024 | 66 | — | — | ||
Rank 44; likely between #37 and #47 of 71Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.55Q3 | 1.58 0.17 down from 2024 | 232 | 16% | — | ||
Rank 45; likely between #38 and #52 of 71Water Economics and PolicyWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.49Q3 | 1.38 0.30 down from 2024 | 98 | 2% | — | ||
Rank 46; likely between #42 and #50 of 71Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M Journal of Engineering for the Maritime EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 1.59 0.01 down from 2024 | 213 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
Rank 47; likely between #42 and #52 of 71World Water PolicyWiley · United States | 0.45Q3 | 1.40 0.06 down from 2024 | 168 | 51% | $3,140 | ||
Rank 48; likely between #46 and #52 of 71Petroleum Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.40Q3 | 1.32 0.27 down from 2024 | 723 | 5% | — | ||
Rank 49; likely between #43 and #60 of 71Journal of Ship ResearchSociety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers · United States | 0.38Q3 | 1.00 0.27 up from 2024 | 36 | — | — | ||
Rank 50; likely between #45 and #58 of 71SPE Production & OperationsUnited States | 0.36Q3 | 1.42 0.29 down from 2024 | 92 | — | — |
8 Ocean Engineering journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1China Ocean EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China+60% vs groupOJR 0.61 → 0.87range +27% to +103%
- 2Polish Maritime ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland+62% vs groupOJR 0.45 → 0.65range +24% to +112%
- 3Ocean EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom+23% vs groupOJR 1.62 → 1.75range +16% to +29%
- 4IEEE Journal of Oceanic EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States+40% vs groupOJR 1.59 → 1.97range +8.5% to +82%
- 5Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production TechnologyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland+29% vs groupOJR 1.12 → 1.27range +7.2% to +56%
- 6Water PolicyOAUWA Publishing+28% vs groupOJR 0.78 → 0.88range +3.7% to +59%
- 7Applied Ocean ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom+13% vs groupOJR 1.74 → 1.74range +2.6% to +25%
- 8Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands+14% vs groupOJR 1.30 → 1.30range +2.0% to +28%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -55% to +120% (ratio scale)
4 Ocean Engineering journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1SPE JournalSociety of Petroleum Engineers · United States-26% vs groupOJR 1.40 → 0.91range -35% to -17%
- 2Journal of NavigationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom-32% vs groupOJR 1.38 → 0.82range -53% to -3.1%
- 3TransNav the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea TransportationOAGdynia Maritime University · Poland-28% vs groupOJR 0.48 → 0.30range -48% to -1.7%
- 4SPE Reservoir Evaluation & EngineeringUnited States-24% vs groupOJR 1.03 → 0.69range -41% to -0.7%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -55% to +120% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Engineering, with Ocean Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering595
- Mechanical Engineering366
- Biomedical Engineering349
- Civil and Structural Engineering268
- Aerospace Engineering141
- Control and Systems Engineering135
- Mechanics of Materials124
- Computational Mechanics98
- Building and Construction88
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering84
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering42
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Media Technology21
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
20 additional Ocean Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 71
- Window papers (baseline)
- 67,746 +5.2% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.698 -2.4% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.