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Arid Land Geography is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4). Published by Science China Press.
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ISSN 1000-6060Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science China Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 120 / 333 | 64th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 185 / 491 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 71 / 184 | 61st | Q2 |
| Atmospheric Science | 90 / 160 | 44th | 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 3.4.
Arid Land Geography is Q2 in Geology (rank 120 of 333), Q2 in Ecology (rank 185 of 491) and Q2 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 71 of 184), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Arid Land Geography 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 3.4, quartile Q2, 64th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.408, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
Arid Land Geography is published by Science China Press. Its ISSN is 1000-6060.
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.
Arid Land Geography has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #252 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Arid Land Geography published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2010 with 122. 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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