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Marine Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.7), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0308-597XVerify ISSN ↗1872-9460Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,260 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 22 / 1162 | 98th | Q1 |
| Aquatic Science | 15 / 259 | 94th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 81 / 755 | 89th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 64 / 432 | 85th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 39 / 249 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.7.
Marine Policy is Q1 in Law (rank 22 of 1162), Q1 in Aquatic Science (rank 15 of 259) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 81 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Marine Policy is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 8.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.279, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 140.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,260 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Marine Policy is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0308-597X and its online ISSN is 1872-9460.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Marine Policy has an h-index of 166 and a 2-year mean of 4.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Marine Policy published 357 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 482. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Spain (9.7%), United Kingdom (9.3%) and United States (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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