Journal of Oceanography

Journal of Oceanography is the bimonthly official journal of The Oceanographic Society of Japan, brought out by Springer under the Springer Japan imprint, and it has carried its present title since 1992 while continuing the numbering of the society's earlier journal. Its pages take in physical, chemical, biological and geological oceanography together with paleoceanography, and the 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, which ranks the title Q2 in OCEANOGRAPHY at 32 of 67.《海洋学杂志》是日本海洋学会的双月刊会刊，由 Springer 以 Springer Japan 名义出版，1992 年起使用现名，卷号沿用学会早先的刊物。内容覆盖物理海洋学，化学海洋学，生物海洋学，地质海洋学与古海洋学，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，在 OCEANOGRAPHY 类目 67 种期刊中排第 32 位，属 Q2。

Scope

• The aims page names it an official journal of the society and open to all oceanographers in the world, a phrasing that places no national or regional condition on authorship.宗旨页把它写成学会的会刊，向全世界的海洋学者开放，这一说法不给作者身份附加国别或地区条件。

• Promoting understanding of ocean systems is named as the main aim, and the phrase is wide enough to keep any single subdiscipline from owning the title.增进对海洋系统的认识被列为主要目标，这一提法宽到任何单一分支都无法独占这份刊物。

• Physical, chemical, biological and geological oceanography are the four angles named, with paleoceanography appended to the end of the same list.物理，化学，生物与地质海洋学是被点名的四个角度，古海洋学接在同一串列举的末尾。

• Research on the western North Pacific and on Asian coastal waters gets special emphasis, and the aims page says in the next breath that the study region is not limited to the Asian Pacific.北太平洋西部与亚洲近岸海域的研究受到特别关注，宗旨页紧接着说明研究区域不限于亚洲太平洋。

• Original articles, short contributions, reviews and correspondence are the four formats named, and the closing clause welcomes work in oceanography and related fields.原创论文，短篇通讯，综述与读者来信是四种具名文体，收尾一句把海洋学及相关领域的来稿一并纳入。

• Papers describing important new techniques, methods or apparatuses are considered as well, so instrument development and measurement practice sit inside the scope.介绍重要新技术，新方法或新仪器的论文同样受理，仪器研制与测量实践因此留在收稿范围之内。

• Descriptive work is accepted only when it carries general principles, a single condition that excludes survey reports written without a wider argument.描述性工作须包含普遍性原理才被接受，这一条件把缺少更广论证的调查记录挡在门外。

• A short contribution runs to 3,500 words at most with an abstract under 100 words, while original articles and reviews have no ceiling on figures and tables and short contributions stop at five.短篇通讯上限 3500 词，摘要不足 100 词，原创论文与综述的图表数量不设上限，短篇通讯则限 5 个。

• Regular submissions carry an abstract of 150 to 250 words and four to six keywords, and the guidelines ask that the abstract hold no undefined abbreviation or unspecified reference.常规稿件须附 150 至 250 词的摘要与 4 至 6 个关键词，指南要求摘要中不出现未定义的缩写或未指明的文献。

• Citations follow author and year inside parentheses, and the reference list is alphabetised by the surname of the first author of each entry.引用采用作者与年份的括号制，文献表按各条第一作者姓氏的字母顺序排列。

• Turbulence and mixing, surface waves, polar and tropical oceans, midlatitude waters, coastal and marginal seas, modelling and data assimilation recur in the specialisms the editors declare.湍流与混合，表面波，极地海洋与热带海洋，中纬度水域，近岸与边缘海，模拟与资料同化，这些都在编辑申报的专长里反复出现。

• Chemical oceanography appears as trace metals, nutrients, organic materials and isotopes, with biogeochemical processes and cycles set beside them.化学海洋学落在痕量金属，营养盐，有机质与同位素上，生物地球化学过程与循环列在其侧。

• On the biological side the same list takes in bacteria and archaea, plankton and nekton, benthos and ecosystem dynamics, while remote sensing and marine optics serve the observational end.生物一侧，同一份名单包含细菌与古菌，浮游生物与游泳生物，底栖生物与生态系统动力学，遥感与海洋光学则支撑观测一端。

History

• The society that owns the title was established in 1942, a date the journal page prints beside the words official journal.拥有这份刊物的学会成立于 1942 年，刊页把这个年份写在会刊的说明旁边。

• The present title began in 1992, the first year given in the National Library of Medicine record, which also notes that the title continues the society's earlier journal.现名始于 1992 年，美国国家医学图书馆的记录以该年为起始年，并注明这一题名延续了学会早先的刊物。

• Volume numbers were inherited rather than restarted, so volume 48 is the 1992 volume, issued in four numbers between April and December.卷号是承接下来的而非重新起算，第 48 卷即 1992 年那一卷，当年 4 月至 12 月共出 4 期。

• From volume 49 in 1993 the title moved to six issues a year, and that cadence has held through every volume since.1993 年第 49 卷起改为每年 6 期，此后每一卷都保持这一节奏。

• Issues now appear in February, April, June, August, October and December, as volumes 80 and 81 show for 2024 and 2025.现行出版月份为 2 月，4 月，6 月，8 月，10 月与 12 月，第 80 卷与第 81 卷在 2024 年与 2025 年各出 6 期。

• Volume 82 covers 2026 and has reached issue 5 in October, leaving the December issue still to appear.第 82 卷对应 2026 年，已出到 10 月的第 5 期，12 月一期尚未上线。

• SpringerLink holds the run from volume 26, the 1970 volume, so the platform reaches back more than two decades before the change of title.SpringerLink 的馆藏自第 26 卷即 1970 年那一卷起，覆盖的年份比改题早了二十年以上。

• The imprint has moved over time, with Dordrecht and Kluwer Academic Publishers in the earlier record and Tokyo with Springer Japan in the current one.出版地随年份变动，早期记录为 Dordrecht 与 Kluwer Academic Publishers，现行记录为东京与 Springer Japan。

• Print ISSN 0916-8370 and electronic ISSN 1573-868X identify the title, and the copyright line names the society rather than the publisher.印本 ISSN 为 0916-8370，电子版 ISSN 为 1573-868X，版权行署的是学会而非出版方。

• Access is hybrid, so the subscription route costs an author nothing while the open access route is optional and its article processing charge is invoiced by Springer Nature.出版模式为混合型，订阅路线不向作者收费，开放获取路线可自行选择，其文章处理费由 Springer Nature 开票。

• Since January 2026 the society has levied no listing fee on published manuscripts, whatever the membership status of the authors.2026 年 1 月起，学会不再对录用的稿件收取刊登费，作者是否为会员一律不影响。

• Authors grant the Oceanographic Society of Japan an exclusive licence to publish, which keeps the rights with the society rather than with the company that produces the issues.作者须向日本海洋学会授予独家出版许可，权利留在学会一方，不随出版方转移。

• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4 came after 1.6 in 2024 and 1.3 in 2023, and the five-year figure now stands at 2.7.2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，2024 年为 1.6，2023 年为 1.3，五年影响因子现为 2.7。

• Its JCI is 0.52 and its percentile 53, with 2970 citations, roughly 40 articles a year and a cited half-life of 15.8 years.其 JCI 为 0.52，百分位为 53，总被引 2970 次，年发文约 40 篇，被引半衰期为 15.8 年。

• Gold open access accounts for 37.89 percent of the content, 114 articles on the platform are open access, and 2025 brought 178.7 thousand downloads.金色开放获取内容占 37.89%，平台上有 114 篇开放获取文章，2025 年下载量为 17.87 万次。

• Abstracting and indexing take in Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Astrophysics Data System, INSPEC, GEOBASE and the physical, chemical and earth sciences edition of Current Contents.收录范围覆盖 Science Citation Index Expanded，Scopus，Astrophysics Data System，INSPEC，GEOBASE，以及 Current Contents 的物理化学与地球科学分辑。

• Recent volumes carry special sections, among them one on midlatitude ocean-atmosphere interactions and extreme events that ran through volume 81 in 2025.近年各卷附设专题栏目，其中中纬度海气相互作用与极端事件一组贯穿 2025 年第 81 卷。

Editors

• Hiroaki Saito of The University of Tokyo holds the editor-in-chief post, and the declared specialisms are chemical oceanography and biological oceanography.主编是东京大学的（Hiroaki Saito），其申报专长为化学海洋学与生物海洋学。

• Twenty-one editors work under the editor-in-chief, which brings the board to twenty-two names in all.主编之下有 21 位编辑，编委名单合计 22 人。

• Sixteen of the twenty-two are based in Japan, while the other six sit abroad, four in the United States and one each in China and Australia.22 人里有 16 人在日本，其余 6 人在海外，美国 4 人，中国与澳大利亚各 1 人。

• The University of Tokyo supplies six names counting the editor-in-chief, among them Koji Hamasaki on bacteria and archaea, Sachihiko Itoh on coastal dynamics, Yuichiro Nishibe on plankton and nekton and Yoshihiro Niwa on turbulence.东京大学占 6 席并把主编算在内，其中有研究细菌与古菌的（Koji Hamasaki），研究近岸动力学的（Sachihiko Itoh），研究浮游生物与游泳生物的（Yuichiro Nishibe）与研究湍流混合的（Yoshihiro Niwa）。

• Shigeyoshi Otosaka completes that group with biogeochemical cycles, and Yoshiko Kondo of Nagasaki University works on trace metals and nutrients.同校的（Shigeyoshi Otosaka）研究生物地球化学循环，长崎大学的（Yoshiko Kondo）研究痕量金属与营养盐。

• Four editors are at JAMSTEC, among them Takeshi Doi on tropical oceans and modelling, Yoshiki Komuro on polar oceans, Shinya Kouketsu on midlatitude waters and Hiromi Kayama Watanabe on benthos.4 位编辑任职于 JAMSTEC，其中有研究热带海洋与模拟的（Takeshi Doi），研究极地海洋的（Yoshiki Komuro），研究中纬度水域的（Shinya Kouketsu）与研究底栖生物的（Hiromi Kayama Watanabe）。

• Hokkaido University, Kanazawa University and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology each supply one editor, taking in remote sensing, marine optics and polar work.北海道大学，金泽大学与东京海洋大学各出 1 位编辑，涉及遥感，海洋光学与极地海洋。

• The fisheries research agency and the Port and Airport Research Institute are represented too, through coastal observation and through surface-wave experiments.日本水产研究与教育机构（Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency）与港湾空港技术研究所（Port and Airport Research Institute）也各有代表，分别侧重近岸观测与表面波实验。

• The four United States editors are Joaquim Goes of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Laodong Guo of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson of the University of Florida and Sachiko Yoshida of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.4 位美国编辑是拉蒙特-多尔蒂地球观测所的（Joaquim Goes），威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校的（Laodong Guo），佛罗里达大学的（Arnoldo Valle-Levinson）与伍兹霍尔海洋研究所的（Sachiko Yoshida）。

• Zhiyu Liu of Xiamen University covers turbulence, mixing and their parameterisation, and Joey Voermans of the University of Melbourne adds coastal observation with data work.厦门大学的（Zhiyu Liu）负责湍流，混合及其参数化，墨尔本大学的（Joey Voermans）补上近岸观测与资料处理。

• Manuscripts arrive through the publisher's online system, a corresponding author supplies an ORCID before submitting, and the board decides acceptance on the basis of the peer reviews it commissions.稿件经出版方的在线系统递交，通讯作者投稿前须提供 ORCID，编委会依据所组织的评审意见决定是否录用。

• Authors may suggest referees and ask that certain individuals be excluded, and every suggested name needs an institutional email address.作者可以推荐审稿人，也可以要求回避某些人，推荐的人选须附机构邮箱。

• An editor with a competing interest steps aside from the paper, and a board member who submits work gets no priority over other authors.存在利益冲突的编辑须从该稿回避，编委投稿也不享有优先权。

• The title follows COPE guidance, a type 1 data policy asks that supporting data be deposited in a public repository, and incomplete declarations are returned to the authors.刊物遵循 COPE 准则，资料政策属第 1 类，鼓励把支撑数据存入公共仓储，声明不完整的稿件会被退回。