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Big Earth Data is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2096-4471Verify ISSN ↗2574-5417Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computers in Earth Sciences | 10 / 76 | 87th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 181 / 1022 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.8.
Big Earth Data is Q1 in Computers in Earth Sciences (rank 10 of 76) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 181 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
Big Earth Data is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 8.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.790, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,024 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.
Big Earth Data is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2096-4471 and its online ISSN is 2574-5417.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Big Earth Data has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 3.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 68 Scopus journals in Computers in Earth Sciences.
Big Earth Data published 74 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (54.8%), United States (10%) and Germany (5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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