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BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Societe Geologique de France.
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ISSN 0037-9409Verify ISSN ↗1777-5817Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Societe Geologique de France
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 60 / 201 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1985, 1978–1983), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin is Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 60 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.822, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 66.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$539 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.
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin is published by Societe Geologique de France. Its print ISSN is 0037-9409 and its online ISSN is 1777-5817.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 1.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 52. 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from France (58.9%), United States (4.7%) and Italy (3.8%). 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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