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Journal of Marine Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0948-4280Verify ISSN ↗1437-8213Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$4,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 25 / 154 | 84th | Q1 |
| Ocean Engineering | 27 / 123 | 78th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 182 / 740 | 75th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 122 / 408 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Journal of Marine Science and Technology is Q1 in Oceanography (rank 25 of 154), Q1 in Ocean Engineering (rank 27 of 123) and Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 182 of 740), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Marine Science and Technology 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.744, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 66.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,090 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 Technology is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0948-4280 and its online ISSN is 1437-8213.
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 Marine Science and Technology has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 3.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
Journal of Marine Science and Technology published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 148. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (30.3%), China (27%) and India (6.5%).
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 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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