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Journal of Marine Science and Application is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Harbin Engineering University.
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ISSN 1671-9433Verify ISSN ↗1993-5048Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Harbin Engineering University
Cost to publish: About US$4,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Engineering | 38 / 123 | 69th | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 254 / 740 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Journal of Marine Science and Application is Q2 in Ocean Engineering (rank 38 of 123) and Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 254 of 740), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Marine Science and Application is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.588, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,190 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.
Journal of Marine Science and Application is published by Harbin Engineering University. Its print ISSN is 1671-9433 and its online ISSN is 1993-5048.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Marine Science and Application has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 3.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 99 Scopus journals in Ocean Engineering.
Journal of Marine Science and Application published 143 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (65.2%), Portugal (6.4%) and Iran (5.1%). 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. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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