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Oceanography is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Oceanography Society.
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ISSN 1042-8275Verify ISSN ↗2377-617XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oceanography Society
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 30 / 154 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1992), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Oceanography is Q1 in Oceanography (rank 30 of 154), by CiteScore 2025.
Oceanography 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.995, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 119.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$500 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.
Oceanography is published by Oceanography Society. Its print ISSN is 1042-8275 and its online ISSN is 2377-617X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Oceanography has an h-index of 140 and a 2-year mean of 2.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
Oceanography published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 122. 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 54 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (49.6%), Norway (9%) and Australia (5.8%).
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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