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Marine Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 3004-832XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 124 / 283 | 56th | Q2 |
| Ocean Engineering | 62 / 123 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Marine Development is Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 124 of 283) and Q2 in Ocean Engineering (rank 62 of 123), by CiteScore 2025.
Marine Development is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.466, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Marine Development is published by Springer. Its ISSN is 3004-832X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Marine Development has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 2.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Marine Development published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 31. 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 81 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (70.4%), India (3.3%) and Türkiye (2.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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