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Advances in Earth Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8). Published by Science China Press.
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ISSN 1001-8166Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science China Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 79 / 183 | 57th | Q2 |
| Geology | 146 / 333 | 56th | Q2 |
| Oceanography | 79 / 154 | 49th | Q3 |
| Atmospheric Science | 103 / 160 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Advances in Earth Science is Q2 in Geophysics (rank 79 of 183), Q2 in Geology (rank 146 of 333) and Q3 in Oceanography (rank 79 of 154), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Advances in Earth Science 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 2.8, quartile Q2, 57th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.396, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Advances in Earth Science is published by Science China Press. Its ISSN is 1001-8166.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Earth Science has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #138 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Advances in Earth Science published 16 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 178. 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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