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Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Berkeley Electronic Press.
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ISSN 2373-8456Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Berkeley Electronic Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 584 / 755 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics is Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 584 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.232, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 9.
Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics is published by Berkeley Electronic Press. Its ISSN is 2373-8456.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #501 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics published 3 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 23. 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 30 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (30%), Ireland (14.6%) and United Kingdom (7.3%).
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 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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