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Acta Oceanologica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 0253-505XVerify ISSN ↗1869-1099Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 136 / 259 | 47th | Q3 |
| Oceanography | 83 / 154 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1985–1993), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Acta Oceanologica Sinica is Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 136 of 259) and Q3 in Oceanography (rank 83 of 154), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Oceanologica Sinica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.380, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 43.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Oceanologica Sinica is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0253-505X and its online ISSN is 1869-1099.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Oceanologica Sinica has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 1.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Acta Oceanologica Sinica published 169 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 193. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (80.3%), Rwanda (3.5%) and Pakistan (2.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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