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Maritime Policy and Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.3), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0308-8839Verify ISSN ↗1464-5254Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Engineering | 5 / 123 | 96th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 45 / 876 | 94th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 49 / 432 | 88th | Q1 |
| Transportation | 24 / 169 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.3.
Maritime Policy and Management is Q1 in Ocean Engineering (rank 5 of 123), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 45 of 876) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 49 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Maritime Policy and Management 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 10.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.054, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 80.
Maritime Policy and Management is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0308-8839 and its online ISSN is 1464-5254.
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 B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
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.
Maritime Policy and Management has an h-index of 92 and a 2-year mean of 4.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 99 Scopus journals in Ocean Engineering.
Maritime Policy and Management published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 99. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (41.5%), United States (6.1%) and United Kingdom (5.9%).
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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