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Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), DOAJ. Published by Editorial Department of Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology.
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ISSN 2096-8523Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Department of Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 61 / 183 | 66th | Q2 |
| Oceanography | 62 / 154 | 60th | Q2 |
| Computers in Earth Sciences | 31 / 76 | 59th | Q2 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 101 / 244 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology is Q2 in Geophysics (rank 61 of 183), Q2 in Oceanography (rank 62 of 154) and Q2 in Computers in Earth Sciences (rank 31 of 76), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology 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 3.7, quartile Q2, 66th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.513, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology is published by Editorial Department of Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology. Its ISSN is 2096-8523.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #138 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology published 19 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 20. 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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