Juniper Publishers - Journal of Oceanography Abstract The study examines India’s performance based on its publication output in Oceanography literature during 2011–2015, based on various aspect of the oceanography research such as growth of papers (year wise), most prolific authors, document types, institutions involved, Sources wise distribution, subject wise distribution of publications and international collaboration linkages. The study reveals that, most of the researchers preferred to publish their research results in journals; as such 1.92% of articles were published in journals, more numbers of articles were published in the year 2015, the study shows that overall average citation per paper was 2.32, all the studies will be helpful for its further development. Further this study also identified to analyses coverage growth rates, coverage growth rates, source wise. Degree of collaboration, institutions wise and Geographical wise distribution of the literature.