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Journal of Ship Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.
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ISSN 0022-4502Verify ISSN ↗1542-0604Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 266 / 680 | 60th | Q2 |
| Numerical Analysis | 37 / 93 | 60th | Q2 |
| Ocean Engineering | 58 / 123 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 383 / 740 | 48th | Q3 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 234 / 434 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–2024 (also 1969–1975), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Journal of Ship Research is Q2 in Applied Mathematics (rank 266 of 680), Q2 in Numerical Analysis (rank 37 of 93) and Q2 in Ocean Engineering (rank 58 of 123), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Ship Research 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.315, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 54.
Journal of Ship Research is published by Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Its print ISSN is 0022-4502 and its online ISSN is 1542-0604.
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 Research has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 1.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #275 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
Journal of Ship Research published 10 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 46. 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 78 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (30.4%), United States (14.9%) and United Kingdom (6.1%).
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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