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Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0733-950XVerify ISSN ↗1943-5460Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Engineering | 53 / 123 | 57th | Q2 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 207 / 434 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 150 / 279 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering is Q2 in Ocean Engineering (rank 53 of 123), Q2 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 207 of 434) and Q3 in Water Science and Technology (rank 150 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.489, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 84.
Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering is published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Its print ISSN is 0733-950X and its online ISSN is 1943-5460.
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 Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 99 Scopus journals in Ocean Engineering.
Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 76. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (38.1%), China (8.8%) and Türkiye (8.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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.
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