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Biogeochemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), WoS SCIE. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0168-2563Verify ISSN ↗1573-515XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 12 / 184 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Water Science and Technology | 36 / 279 | 87th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 48 / 157 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
Biogeochemistry is Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 12 of 184), Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 36 of 279) and Q2 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 48 of 157), by CiteScore 2025.
Biogeochemistry 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 8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.537, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 184.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Biogeochemistry is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0168-2563 and its online ISSN is 1573-515X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biogeochemistry has an h-index of 217 and a 2-year mean of 4.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Biogeochemistry published 100 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 136. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.8%), China (7.9%) and Germany (7.4%).
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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