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Biogeotechnics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 18.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2949-9291Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 3 / 244 | 98th | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 3 / 194 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 18.1.
Biogeotechnics is Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 3 of 244) and Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 3 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Biogeotechnics 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 18.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.105, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 23.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Biogeotechnics is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2949-9291.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Biogeotechnics has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 7.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 18.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
Biogeotechnics published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 59. 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 84 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (45.4%), United States (13.5%) and Japan (8.3%).
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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