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Physical Oceanography is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS.
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ISSN 0928-5105Verify ISSN ↗1573-160XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 118 / 183 | 35th | Q3 |
| Oceanography | 115 / 154 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 1993–2011), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Physical Oceanography is Q3 in Geophysics (rank 118 of 183) and Q3 in Oceanography (rank 115 of 154), by CiteScore 2025.
Physical Oceanography is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.337, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Physical Oceanography is published by Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS. Its print ISSN is 0928-5105 and its online ISSN is 1573-160X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Physical Oceanography has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #138 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Physical Oceanography published 9 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 59. 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 56 research articles (2021–2022), authors are most often from Russia (91.7%), Ukraine (5.1%) and New Zealand (1.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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