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Journal of Ship Production and Design is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.
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ISSN 2158-2866Verify ISSN ↗2158-2874Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Engineering | 63 / 123 | 49th | Q3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 413 / 740 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.4.
Journal of Ship Production and Design is Q3 in Ocean Engineering (rank 63 of 123) and Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 413 of 740), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Ship Production and Design 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.332, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
Journal of Ship Production and Design is published by Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Its print ISSN is 2158-2866 and its online ISSN is 2158-2874.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Ship Production and Design has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #84 of 99 Scopus journals in Ocean Engineering.
Journal of Ship Production and Design published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 81. 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 90 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (35.6%), United States (16.1%) and Türkiye (9.4%).
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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