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Arab World Geographer is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7). Published by University of Akron.
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ISSN 1480-6800Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Akron
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 706 / 876 | 19th | Q4 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 151 / 184 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 2005–2014), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Arab World Geographer is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 706 of 876) and Q4 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 151 of 184), by CiteScore 2025.
Arab World Geographer 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 0.7, quartile Q4, 19th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.138, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 14.
Arab World Geographer is published by University of Akron. Its ISSN is 1480-6800.
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.
Arab World Geographer has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #731 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Arab World Geographer published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 41. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Algeria (23.5%), United Arab Emirates (15.6%) and Malaysia (9.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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