MARINE GEORESOURCES & GEOTECHNOLOGY

MARINE GEORESOURCES & GEOTECHNOLOGY is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 4 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures, together about 51.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Civil and Structural Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Marine Georesources & Geotechnology publishes research applied to the scientific and engineering aspects, and the management and utilization, of seafloor sediments and rocks. The journal is intended for researchers and engineers, in both academia and industry, who seek solutions to problems in marine mineral resources and civil engineering. Areas covered range from marine minerals exploration and recovery to anchoring and mooring systems, bottom installations, and coastal engineering structures. The journal includes the study of acoustical, biological, chemical, mechanical, and physical properties affecting the geological system of the seafloor and response of this system to applied static and dynamic loads. Special emphasis is placed on the environmental aspects of seafloor exploration and development. The journal accepts contributions on topics such as shipboard mining systems, seafloor lodes, nodules, phosphates, crusts and placers, pipelines, platforms, and processing and transportation, as well as analytic techniques related to marine mining. Readership: Scientists and engineers with interest in marine minerals and exploration, marine mining, geology, marine environmental remediation, dredging, oil exploration, civil engineering, offshore structures, marine policy, coastal engineering, and geophysical and marine structures.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Ocean

Editor-in-chief John CharlesPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 8 in mainland China (about 38%); most named Mainland China 8, United States 2, United Kingdom 2, Japan 2, Hong Kong, China 1 (21 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

EI CompendexCASCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: Applied Mechanics Review, Applied Science & Technology Index, Articles in Civil Engineering, ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts, Automatic Subject Citation Index, Bibliography and Index of Micropaleontology, BIOSIS Previews, CSA Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database, CSA Oceanic Abstracts, CSA Ocean Technology, Policy, & Non-Living Resources, CSA Water Abstracts, Current Titles in Ocean, Coastal Lake and Waterway Science, Engineering Information, Environmental Abstracts, Fluidex, Geo Abstracts, GEOBASE, Geographical Abstracts, Geotechnical Abstracts, IMM Abstracts, Marine Science Contents Tables, Offshore Abstracts, Petroleum Abstracts, Pollution Abstracts, SciSearch, VINITI

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

2.29LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.57LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.57Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

23LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

54OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

848OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.62OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

12.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

2.38%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

146LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

81,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

26%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

1 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

46 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

29 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1064-119X

Electronic ISSN

1521-0618

Latest issue on the website

Volume 44, Issue 9 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website