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Acta Sedimentologica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), DOAJ. Published by Science China Press.
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ISSN 1000-0550Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science China Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratigraphy | 15 / 56 | 74th | Q2 |
| Geology | 109 / 333 | 67th | Q2 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 66 / 164 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Acta Sedimentologica Sinica is Q2 in Stratigraphy (rank 15 of 56), Q2 in Geology (rank 109 of 333) and Q2 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 66 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Sedimentologica Sinica is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2, 74th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.606, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
Acta Sedimentologica Sinica is published by Science China Press. Its ISSN is 1000-0550.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Sedimentologica Sinica has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 51 Scopus journals in Stratigraphy.
Acta Sedimentologica Sinica published 2 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 106. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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