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Ocean and Coastal Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0964-5691Verify ISSN ↗1873-524XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,350 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 8 / 259 | 97th | Q1 |
| Oceanography | 6 / 154 | 96th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 48 / 432 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.3.
Ocean and Coastal Management is Q1 in Aquatic Science (rank 8 of 259), Q1 in Oceanography (rank 6 of 154) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 48 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Ocean and Coastal Management 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 10.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.332, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 124.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,350 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.
Ocean and Coastal Management is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0964-5691 and its online ISSN is 1873-524X.
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.
Ocean and Coastal Management has an h-index of 146 and a 2-year mean of 5.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Ocean and Coastal Management published 449 papers in 2025. 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 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (19.1%), United Kingdom (8.6%) and United States (6.5%).
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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