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Arid Zone Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6). Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1001-4675Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 108 / 333 | 67th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 171 / 491 | 65th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 140 / 307 | 54th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 137 / 279 | 51st | Q2 |
| Atmospheric Science | 85 / 160 | 47th | 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 3.6.
Arid Zone Research is Q2 in Geology (rank 108 of 333), Q2 in Ecology (rank 171 of 491) and Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 140 of 307), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Arid Zone Research 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, 67th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.354, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
Arid Zone Research is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1001-4675.
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 Zone Research has an h-index of 13 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 #252 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Arid Zone Research published 1 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2010 with 297. 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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