Overview
The Journal of Oceanography is the official journal of the Oceanographic Society of Japan and open to all oceanographers in the world. The main aim of the journal is to promote understandings of ocean systems from various aspects including physical, chemical, biological, geological oceanography as well as paleoceanography, etc.
- An official journal of The Oceanographic Society of Japan, established in 1942.
- Covers all aspects of Oceanography: Physical, Chemical, Biological, Geological, and Paleo- Oceanography.
- Welcomes research from all oceanographers worldwide, with special emphasis on the western North Pacific and Asian coastal waters.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Hiroaki Saito
- Journal Impact Factor
- 1.3 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 1.7 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 12 days
- Downloads
- 146,933 (2023)
Societies and partnerships
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Call for papers : Midlatitude ocean-atmosphere interactions and extreme events
Midlatitude oceanic structures, such as strong currents and eddies, and their variability have been shown to have the potential to influence the atmosphere aloft through associated sea surface and/or upper ocean temperature distributions.
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Published Special Sections
Information on previously-published Special Sections.
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Announcement from the society
During the long publishing history of the Journal of Oceanography, the Oceanographic Society of Japan had charged authors for publication several times. Since 2011, when the journal moved to publish with Springer, the publication fee was waived. However, for several reasons, we have decided to charge this fee again starting from August 1st, 2014. The following rule applies to all articles submitted after August 1st, and the authors will be invoiced after the manuscript has been accepted....
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Award Winning Articles
The Oceanographic Society of Japan has selected the following articles for the Hidaka Article Award 2016 and Young Author Award 2016....
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-868X
- Print ISSN
- 0916-8370
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- BFI List
- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- Engineering Village – GEOBASE
- Google Scholar
- INSPEC
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- Semantic Scholar
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Zoological Record
- Copyright information