Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans is one of the section journals of the American Geophysical Union, and it carries work that brings physics, chemistry, biology and geology to the study of the sea. The oceans section has stood on its own since 2013, when it took its present numbers, and it appears every month. Its 2025 impact factor is 3.3.《地球物理研究杂志海洋分册》是美国地球物理联合会的一份分册刊物，刊载把物理学，化学，生物学与地质学带进海洋研究的工作。海洋分册自 2013 年启用现行刊号后独立成刊，每月出版。其 2025 年影响因子为 3.3。

Scope

• The journal embraces the application of physics, chemistry, biology and geology to the study of the oceans, so a single issue may carry work from four natural sciences.该刊接纳物理学，化学，生物学与地质学在海洋研究中的应用，因此同一期里可以承载四个自然学科的工作。

• It is concerned with the interaction of the oceans with the other components of the Earth system, which places the sea inside a wider physical picture.该刊关注海洋与地球系统其他组分之间的相互作用，这把海洋放进一幅更广阔的物理图景之中。

• The publisher states that deepening the integrated knowledge of the sea calls for new observational, analytical, computational and modelling capabilities.出版方指出，深化对海洋的综合认识需要新的观测，分析，计算与建模能力。

• Those capabilities are expected to build on established approaches in all areas of marine science rather than to replace them.这些能力被期望在全部分海洋科学领域中建立在既有方法之上，而不是取而代之。

• The journal publishes new understanding of the ocean and of its processes, so a paper is expected to say something new about how the sea works.该刊发表对海洋及其过程的新认识，因此一篇论文被期望对海洋如何运转说出新的内容。

• Physical ocean processes are named first, and they take in the circulation of water and the transfer of energy and momentum.物理海洋过程被列在首位，它涵盖水的环流以及能量与动量的传递。

• Biogeochemical ocean processes form a second named group, and they link the chemistry of seawater to the life inside it.生物地球化学海洋过程构成第二组，它们把海水的化学与其内部的生物联系起来。

• Sedimentary ocean processes close the list, so the journal follows material from the water column into the sea floor.沉积海洋过程补足了清单，因此该刊追踪物质从水体进入海底的过程。

• Research papers and commentaries are both carried, and commentaries give authors a shorter form for a single point.该刊既刊载研究论文也刊载评论文章，评论为作者提供了一个陈述单一点的较短形式。

• Special collections gather papers around a theme or a Grand Challenge, and calls for papers are issued for those collections in advance.专题合集围绕某个主题或某项重大挑战汇集论文，这些合集会提前发布征稿启事。

• The journal states that the union operates as a nonprofit publisher, so its titles are run for the scientific community rather than for a commercial owner.该刊声明联合会作为非营利出版方运营，因此其刊物是为科学共同体而非商业所有者而办。

• Editorial standards are set by the union, and its titles share common policies on data availability, on research ethics and on authorship.编辑标准由联合会确定，其刊物在数据可得性，研究伦理与作者身份方面共用同一套政策。

• Commentaries are shorter pieces, often invited, that set one paper inside a wider context for readers outside the immediate specialism.评论是较短的稿件，往往为约稿，它把一篇论文放进更广的背景中，供并非本行的读者阅读。

History

• The parent journal of geophysical research began in 1896, which makes the family one of the oldest in the earth sciences.其母刊《地球物理研究》创办于 1896 年，这使该系列成为地球科学中最古老的一支。

• From 1978 the parent title was divided step by step into eight section journals, covering subjects from space physics to the solid earth.自 1978 年起，母刊逐步拆分为八份分册刊物，选题从空间物理一直到固体地球。

• The oceans section took its present numbers, 2169-9275 for print and 2169-9291 for online, in 2013, when the section journals were given their own identifiers.海洋分册在 2013 年启用现行刊号，印本为 2169-9275，电子本为 2169-9291，各分册刊物自此有了各自的标识。

• Its record in the National Library of Medicine dates the present title from 2013 and gives Hoboken in New Jersey as the place of publication.美国国立医学图书馆的编目把现行题名的起始定在 2013 年，并把新泽西州的霍博肯列为出版地。

• The section is issued every month, and the volume numbering continues the run of the parent journal rather than starting again.该分册按月出版，其卷号延续母刊的出版线而没有重新起算。

• The union moved its journals onto a commercial platform, and the title is now distributed through the publisher that carries the union's list.联合会把其刊物放上商业平台，该刊目前通过承载联合会刊物清单的出版方分发。

• Only selected citations are carried by PubMed, so the title is not indexed for biomedical purposes in full.PubMed 只收录其部分引用，因此该刊并未被完整地纳入生物医学检索。

• The 2025 impact factor is 3.3 and the five-year figure is 4.0, which places the title in the first quartile of oceanography.该刊 2025 年影响因子为 3.3，五年影响因子为 4.0，位于海洋学的第一象限。

• Its snapshot records more than forty-seven thousand citations and 526 articles, among the largest annual outputs in marine science.其快照记录总被引超过四万七千次，年发文 526 篇，在海洋科学中属于数一数二的年产出。

• The cited half-life of 13.1 years is the longest among the journals handled in this batch, which fits a field whose observations keep their value.被引半衰期长达 13.1 年，是本批处理的刊物中最长的一份，这切合一个观测长期保值的领域。

• About half of its articles were open access in the same snapshot, and the union's journals include a group that are fully open.在同一份快照中，约半数文章为开放获取，而联合会的刊物中也有一批是完全开放的。

• The union's journals carry more than a hundred thousand articles between them, and new ones are added on a regular basis.联合会各刊物合计承载十万篇以上文章，并且仍在定期增加。

• Back volumes of the section are held in the union's digital library, where earlier papers stay available to subscribers and, where they are open, to everyone.该分册的过刊保存在联合会的数字图书馆中，较早的论文对订阅者持续可用，属于开放获取的则对所有人可用。

• The union states that its publications are among the fastest in the earth and space sciences from acceptance to appearance.联合会声明其刊物从接受到面世的速度在地球与空间科学中位居前列。

• The history of the parent journal reaches back to the end of the nineteenth century, when geophysics was taking shape as a discipline of its own.母刊的历史可上溯到十九世纪末，当时地球物理学正在形成为一门独立的学科。

• Section titles of this kind are edited independently, and each sets its own scope within the family.这一类分册刊物独立编辑，每一份都在系列之内划出自己的范围。

Editors

• (Lisa Beal) of the University of Miami is editor-in-chief.（Lisa Beal）任职于迈阿密大学，是该刊主编。

• The union's guide to its publications lists her as the editor of the oceans section, and her base is given as a marine science school in Florida.联合会的出版物指南把她列为海洋分册的主编，其工作单位是佛罗里达的一所海洋科学学院。

• A second editor-in-chief joined the title at the start of 2025, so the section is now led by two people.2025 年初另有一位主编加入该刊，因此海洋分册目前由两位主编共同主持。

• The editorial team was broadened in 2022, when about a dozen new editors were recruited from around the world.编辑团队在 2022 年得到扩大，当时从世界各地聘用了约十位新编辑。

• The publishers explained that the new editors were chosen to reflect the journal's author demographic more closely and to make more inclusive decisions.出版方解释说，新编辑的选聘是为了更贴近该刊作者群体，并作出更具包容性的决定。

• Editors are recognised experts in their research areas, and the union states that its peer-reviewed journals are driven by such editors.编辑们是其研究领域公认的专家，联合会声明其同行评审刊物正是由这样的编辑推动。

• The journal also tightened its editorial requirements, and it now asks that every manuscript communicate a new understanding about the ocean before it is considered further.该刊同时收紧了编辑要求，现在要求每篇稿件在进入下一步之前，先清楚传达一项关于海洋的新认识。

• The editors have written publicly about reviewer fatigue and about the risk of bias in editorial decisions, and they set out the steps they took in response.编辑们曾公开撰文讨论审稿人疲劳与编辑决定中的偏见风险，并说明了他们为此采取的步骤。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the union's own electronic manuscript system, which asks authors to link an open researcher and contributor identifier to their account.稿件通过联合会自有的电子稿系统投递，该系统要求作者把开放研究者与贡献者身份标识符与账号关联。

• The editorial office answers author queries through a dedicated address for the oceans section.编辑部通过海洋分册的专用邮箱答复作者询问。

• Decisions are taken by editors who work in the field rather than by a central office, which is the union's model for all of its journals.决定由工作在科研一线的编辑作出，而不是由一个中央办公室作出，这是联合会所有期刊的模式。

• The sections also handle the special collections, and each collection has its own set of editors drawn from the board.各分册也负责专题合集，每个合集都有自己的编辑班子，从编委会中抽调。

• The union publishes its policy on data and code availability, and the journal applies it to the papers it accepts.联合会公布其在数据与代码可得性方面的政策，该刊把这一政策用于其接收的论文。

• The board includes editors for the union's Grand Challenges and for the journal's own special collections, and calls for papers are issued under those headings.编委会中设有负责联合会重大挑战与刊物自身专题合集的编辑，征稿启事也以这些名目发布。

• The journal's editors are listed on the union's journal page together with their institutions and their stated research areas.该刊的编辑列在联合会的刊物页面上，并附有各自所属机构与申报的研究方向。