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Ocean and Polar Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute.
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ISSN 1598-141XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes | 78 / 99 | 21st | Q4 |
| Ocean Engineering | 99 / 123 | 19th | Q4 |
| Geology | 277 / 333 | 16th | Q4 |
| Aquatic Science | 233 / 259 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Ocean and Polar Research is Q4 in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes (rank 78 of 99), Q4 in Ocean Engineering (rank 99 of 123) and Q4 in Geology (rank 277 of 333), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Ocean and Polar Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4, 21st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.178, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 18.
Ocean and Polar Research is published by Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute. Its ISSN is 1598-141X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ocean and Polar Research has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #82 of 90 Scopus journals in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes.
Ocean and Polar Research published 5 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 48. 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.
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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