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China Ocean Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), 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 0890-5487Verify ISSN ↗2191-8945Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 45 / 154 | 71st | Q2 |
| Ocean Engineering | 37 / 123 | 70th | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 247 / 740 | 66th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 170 / 345 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1987–1993), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
China Ocean Engineering is Q2 in Oceanography (rank 45 of 154), Q2 in Ocean Engineering (rank 37 of 123) and Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 247 of 740), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
China Ocean Engineering 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.635, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 38.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
China Ocean Engineering is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0890-5487 and its online ISSN is 2191-8945.
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.
China Ocean Engineering has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 4.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
China Ocean Engineering published 93 papers in 2025. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (88%), United Kingdom (3.8%) and Japan (1.3%). 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 (1.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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