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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 2169-9275Verify ISSN ↗2169-9291Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$4,070 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 32 / 183 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Oceanography | 29 / 154 | 81st | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 37 / 194 | 81st | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 39 / 164 | 76th | Q1 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 34 / 105 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1986–1992), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans is Q1 in Geophysics (rank 32 of 183), Q1 in Oceanography (rank 29 of 154) and Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 37 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.376, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 224.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,070 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.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 2169-9275 and its online ISSN is 2169-9291.
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.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans has an h-index of 141 and a 2-year mean of 2.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans published 564 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 577. 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 (23.9%), United States (22.8%) and Australia (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.1 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.
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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