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International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE. Published by International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers.
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ISSN 1053-5381Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Engineering | 81 / 123 | 34th | Q3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 494 / 740 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 307 / 434 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering is Q3 in Ocean Engineering (rank 81 of 123), Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 494 of 740) and Q3 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 307 of 434), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Offshore and Polar 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.322, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 49.
International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering is published by International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers. Its ISSN is 1053-5381.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 5.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 99 Scopus journals in Ocean Engineering.
International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 59. 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.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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