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Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), DOAJ. Published by Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology.
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ISSN 0029-814XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 234 / 279 | 16th | Q4 |
| Aquatic Science | 224 / 259 | 13th | Q4 |
| Oceanography | 134 / 154 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 1988), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica is Q4 in Water Science and Technology (rank 234 of 279), Q4 in Aquatic Science (rank 224 of 259) and Q4 in Oceanography (rank 134 of 154), by CiteScore 2025.
Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica 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 0.9, quartile Q4, 16th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.197, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 19.
Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica is published by Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology. Its ISSN is 0029-814X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #232 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica published 4 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 185. 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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