Journal profile · ENGINEERING, MARINE
Ships and Offshore Structures
ISSN 1744-5302 · eISSN 1754-212X · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · ENGLAND
Ships and Offshore Structures: CAS Zone 4 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.67; JCR Q2 (journal website); subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 134 days to acceptance (113 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 327 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Ships and Offshore Structures 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 Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis, Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability and Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions, together about 36.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Ocean Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Ships and Offshore Structures is a well-established international, peer-reviewed journal, which provides an authoritative forum for publication and discussion of recent advances and future trends in all aspects of science, technology and engineering across the maritime industry. The Journal covers both ships (including merchant ships, war ships, submarines and polar ships) and offshore structures (floating and fixed offshore platforms, offshore infrastructure, underwater vehicles and subsea facilities) with a strong emphasis on practical design, construction, operation and decommissioning. Safety, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency are among the aspects of interest. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Maritime legislations, standards, recommended practices and education Initial planning, concept design and contracting Zero emission and decarbonisation Multidisciplinary design optimisation (e.g., fluid-structure interaction and stability-crashworthiness interaction) Large database and data-centric engineering (e.g., in-situ measurements of site-specific metocean data and in-service damage data) Hydrodynamics and propulsion Structures and materials Limit states (e.g., ultimate limit states, serviceability limit states, fatigue limit states and accidental limit states) Vibration and noise Intact/damage stability and accidental flooding Machinery and marine engineering Ocean and environmental engineering Renewable energy and technology Safety design and engineering with extreme conditions and accidents Quantitative risk assessment and management Physical testing and validation Impact engineering and crashworthiness Construction, production and digital shipyards Operation (e.g., operational records and manned/unmanned operations) Digital healthcare engineering (e.g., health condition monitoring/assessment and repair for lifetime healthcare) Sensing, actuation and control Conversion and decommissioning Arctic and polar engineering Offshore and subsea engineering Human factors engineering Autonomous vessels and navigation Alternative fuels, fossil-free vessels and technology Machine learning, artificial intelligence and metaverse systems (e.g., digital twins, ICT and IoT) Underwater soft robotic systems Terrorist attacks and cyber security Articles of interest to Ships and Offshore Structures will thus be broad-ranging, and will include contributions concerned with principles, analytical or computational modelling, physical test
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENGINEERING, MARINE
Editor-in-chief Jeom KeePublisher website
Editorial board by country: 21 in mainland China (about 26%); most named Mainland China 21, United Kingdom 10, South Korea 6, Türkiye 5, Iran 4 (80 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Structural Integrity and Reliability AnalysisEngineering13.9%
- Ship Hydrodynamics and ManeuverabilityEngineering11.9%
- Fluid Dynamics Simulations and InteractionsEngineering10.9%
- Wave and Wind Energy SystemsEngineering7.8%
- Fluid Dynamics and Vibration AnalysisEngineering4.8%
- Maritime Navigation and SafetyEngineering4.1%
- Maritime Transport Emissions and EfficiencyEnvironmental Science4%
- Geotechnical Engineering and Underground StructuresEngineering3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Marine | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Marine | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Marine | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q2 · 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 CompendexINSPECPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, British Library Inside, EBSCO Databases, Marine Technology Abstracts, Petroleum Abstracts, Polymer Library, Zetoc
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
- 1.67LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.49LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.49Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 24LetPub ·
- h-index
- 50OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 817OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.82OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 3.74%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 335LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 155,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,414 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 259 | 35 | 34 |
| 2025 | 327 | 21 | 468 |
| 2024 | 243 | 23 | 1,007 |
| 2023 | 121 | 15 | 750 |
| 2022 | 181 | 25 | 1,580 |
| 2021 | 179 | 32 | 1,735 |
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 · to
134 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 95 days – 211 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 20 days (114 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 164 days
- Sample
- 113 articles with submission and acceptance dates (635 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 51%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 51 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 57 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 25 daysPublisher 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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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
- industry practitioner reportsIndustry practitioner reportsLength not stated
- original research articlesOriginal research articlesLength not stated
- scientific commentariesScientific commentariesLength not stated
- short communicationsShort communicationsLength not stated
- state-of-the-art reviewsState-of-the-art reviewsLength not stated
- technology case studiesTechnology case studiesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Open access: hybrid journal, part of Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program. Model summary
Ships and Offshore Structures is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverabili…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review type: anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees, based on initial editor screening. Model summary
All published articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer-reviews, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.
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
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1744-5302
- Electronic ISSN
- 1754-212X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 21, Issue 8 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Ships and Offshore Structures
What CAS zone is Ships and Offshore Structures in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Ships and Offshore Structures is in Zone 4 of Engineering, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Engineering, Marine. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Ships and Offshore Structures?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.67; CiteScore 4.6, h-index 50.
How long does peer review take at Ships and Offshore Structures?
Based on the dates recorded on 113 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 134 days (interquartile range 95–211 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 51%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What JCR quartile is Ships and Offshore Structures in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Engineering.
Where are the editorial board members of Ships and Offshore Structures based?
Of the 80 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 21 (about 26%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (21), United Kingdom (10) and South Korea (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Ships and Offshore Structures?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Ships and Offshore Structures is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex and INSPEC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Ships and Offshore Structures open access, and what is the APC?
Ships and Offshore Structures is a subscription journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .