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Oceanography and Marine Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.3). Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0078-3218Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 119 / 154 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Aquatic Science | 200 / 259 | 22nd | 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 2025 (also 2004–2020, 1991–1997, 1979), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.3.
Oceanography and Marine Biology is Q4 in Oceanography (rank 119 of 154) and Q4 in Aquatic Science (rank 200 of 259), by CiteScore 2025.
Oceanography and Marine Biology 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 1.3, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Oceanography and Marine Biology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its ISSN is 0078-3218.
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.
Oceanography and Marine Biology has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #132 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
Oceanography and Marine Biology published 9 papers in 2016; its busiest recent year was 2007 with 11. 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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