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Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0967-0637Verify ISSN ↗1879-0119Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,270 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 51 / 259 | 80th | Q1 |
| Oceanography | 40 / 154 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1989), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers is Q1 in Aquatic Science (rank 51 of 259) and Q2 in Oceanography (rank 40 of 154), by CiteScore 2025.
Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.763, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 149.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,270 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.
Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0967-0637 and its online ISSN is 1879-0119.
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.
Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers has an h-index of 184 and a 2-year mean of 2.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers published 136 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 170. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (37.6%), United States (10.8%) and Brazil (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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