Journal profile · ANTHROPOLOGY
Oceania
ISSN 0029-8077 · eISSN 1834-4461 · Wiley-Blackwell
Oceania: CAS Zone 4 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.6; hybrid open access; APC about USD 2,900; 26 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Oceania is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Island Studies and Pacific Affairs, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies and Anthropological Studies and Insights, together about 55.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Oceania publishes contributions in the field of social and cultural anthropology. Its primary regional orientation is to the peoples of Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and insular southeast Asia. The central concern of the journal lies with papers that are the product of sustained ethnographic research, but review articles and papers that have direct bearing on the central ethnographic concerns of the journal are also accepted. Correspondence and shorter comments may be published at the discretion of the editors.Oceania also encourages the submission of thematically connected collections of papers by guest editors. Potential guest editors should consult with the editors on issues of length, style and organization of the collection before submission. In such cases, refereeing will be done as a collection. Oceania is blind refereed and is published three times per year. Abstracting and Indexing Information Abstracts in Anthropology (Sage) Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) Academic OneFile (GALE Cengage) Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Complete (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Elite (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing) Advanced Placement Source (EBSCO Publishing) Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) Anthropological Literature (Harvard University) APAIS: Australian Public Affairs & Information Service (National Library of Australia) Art, Design & Architecture Collection (ProQuest) ArticleFirst (OCLC) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest) Arts Premium Collection (ProQuest) Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre (EBSCO Publishing) Biography Index (EBSCO Publishing) Book Review Digest Plus (EBSCO Publishing) Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (ProQuest) Energy & Power Source (EBSCO Publishing) Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) General OneFile (GALE Cengage) General Reference Center (GALE Cengage) General Reference Center Gold (GALE Cengage) Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (EBSCO Publishing) Humanities International Complete (EBSCO Publishing) Humanities International Index (EBSCO Publishing) IBR & IBZ: International Bibliographies of Periodical Literature (KG Saur) InfoTrac (GALE Cengage) InfoTrac Student Edition (GALE Cengage) MasterFILE Elite (EBSCO Publishing) MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO Publishing) MLA International Bibliography (MLA) Natural Science Colle
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ANTHROPOLOGY
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 2, Australia 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Island Studies and Pacific AffairsSocial Sciences28.4%
- Pacific and Southeast Asian StudiesSocial Sciences18%
- Anthropological Studies and InsightsSocial Sciences9.1%
- Australian History and SocietySocial Sciences5.5%
- Australian Indigenous Culture and HistorySocial Sciences5.3%
- Indigenous Health, Education, and RightsSocial Sciences3.5%
- Indigenous Studies and EcologyHealth Professions3.4%
- Asian Studies and HistorySocial Sciences3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Anthropology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Anthropology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Anthropology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
AHCIPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, OCLC
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 0.6LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.18LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.65LetPub ·
- h-index
- 70OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 822OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.78OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 16.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 58.54%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 6LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 21Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 38,524Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 4,438 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 26 | 8 | 11 |
| 2024 | 30 | 11 | 35 |
| 2023 | 37 | 25 | 51 |
| 2022 | 36 | 9 | 50 |
| 2021 | 42 | 18 | 131 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref
Not usableThis publisher's "received" date is mostly when the revised manuscript arrived (25% of articles were "accepted" within 3 days), so it cannot measure review time
Other sources
- Peer review
- Double 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,900 / EUR 2,390 / GBP 1,930 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- book revieways are reviewed by anonymous referees. Book reviews The approximate word count of reviews should be 500-1000 words. The book you have reviewed is, of course, y…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- book review essaysBook Review essays Review essays are discussions of a number of books in light of developments in the field, and should be approximately 4000 words.Length not stated
- book reviewsBook reviews The approximate word count of reviews should be 500-1000 words.Length not stated
- editorialThe acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Manuscripts are double-blind peer…Length not stated
- original article5. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION Article Types Original Articles Manuscripts should generally be no longer than 10,000 words including references. However, we also rec…main text ≤ 10,000 words
- original articlesOriginal ArticlesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship and Acknowledgements
Author name change policy. Model summary
The journal adheres to the definition of authorship set up by The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria: i) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; ii) Drafting the work or revising it critically for importa…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
Data sharing encouraged via public repositories. Model summary
The journal encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical Considerations
COPE member. Model summary
Manuscripts must contain a statement to the effect that all human studies have been reviewed by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in an appropriate version of the 2000 Declaration of Helsinki as well as the Declaration of Istanbul 2008. It should also be stated clearly in the text that all persons gave their inform…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright 8. COPYRIGHT, LICENCING AND OPEN ACCESS
Accepted papers will be passed to Wiley’s production team for publication. The author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Wiley’s Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be asked to sign a license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access 8. COPYRIGHT, LICENCING AND OPEN ACCESS
Accepted papers will be passed to Wiley’s production team for publication. The author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Wiley’s Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be asked to sign a license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint Policy
Preprint policy: preprints may be submitted and posted at any time. Model summary
Oceania will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 0029-8077
- Electronic ISSN
- 1834-4461
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 95, Issue 2 (July 2025)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Oceania
What CAS zone is Oceania in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Oceania is in Zone 4 of Sociology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Anthropology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Oceania?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.6; CiteScore 1.2, h-index 70.
Where are the editorial board members of Oceania based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (2) and Australia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Oceania?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Oceania is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists AHCI; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Oceania open access, and what is the APC?
Oceania is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 2,900.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-30). Last updated: .