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Applied Clay Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0169-1317Verify ISSN ↗1872-9053Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,810 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 12 / 333 | 96th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 8 / 164 | 95th | Q1 |
| Water Science and Technology | 24 / 279 | 91st | Q1 |
| Soil Science | 17 / 167 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.7.
Applied Clay Science is Q1 in Geology (rank 12 of 333), Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 8 of 164) and Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 24 of 279), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Applied Clay Science is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 10.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.972, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 182.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,810 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Applied Clay Science is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0169-1317 and its online ISSN is 1872-9053.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Applied Clay Science has an h-index of 196 and a 2-year mean of 5.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Applied Clay Science published 306 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 631. 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.
In its latest 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (40.7%), Japan (5.2%) and United States (4.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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