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WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1651-436XVerify ISSN ↗1654-1642Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety Research | 16 / 108 | 85th | Q1 |
| Human Factors and Ergonomics | 10 / 48 | 80th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 118 / 432 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Transportation | 55 / 169 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs is Q1 in Safety Research (rank 16 of 108), Q1 in Human Factors and Ergonomics (rank 10 of 48) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 118 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.473, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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.
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1651-436X and its online ISSN is 1654-1642.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 2.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 106 Scopus journals in Safety Research.
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs published 44 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (17.3%), Türkiye (8.2%) and Belgium (7.7%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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