The Journal of Ocean University is sponsored by Guangdong Ocean University. It is bimonial to reflect scientific research achievements in Marine and fisheries sciences in time, promote academic exchanges at home and abroad, and serve the construction of our country's socialist market economy. The journal mainly publishes the basic theories of Marine and fisheries science. Aquatic genetic breeding, aquaculture and breeding, aquatic animal nutrition and feed, aquatic disease control, Marine fisheries, fishing vessels, fishery machinery and instruments, high-quality processing and utilization of aquatic living resources, aquatic food quality and safety, Marine biomedicine development, Marine climate change, Marine meteorological processes, Marine resources development, Marine environmental protection, Marine dynamic processes, Academic papers in the fields of Marine engineering, Marine engineering, coastal engineering, coastal agriculture, etc.
Journal of Guangdong Ocean University is the source journal of China Science Citation Database (CSCD), the Chinese core journal, the Chinese core journal of Science and Technology, the source journal of Science and Technology Journal World Impact Index (WJCI) and the high-quality science and technology journal of Marine science in geoscience field of China. It has been included in the Chinese Scientific Papers and Citations Database (CSTPCD), the Chinese Journal Full-Text Database (CJFD), the Chinese Academic Journal Comprehensive Evaluation Database (CAJCED), the Chinese Journal of Science and Technology Database (CSTJ), the American Chemical Abstracts (CA), the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), and the United Nations Water Science and Fisheries Abstracts (AS) FA), Japan Science and Technology Agency Database (JST) and other databases and retrieval systems.