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Bulletin of Glaciological Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Japanese Society of Snow and Ice.
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ISSN 1345-3807Verify ISSN ↗1884-8044Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society of Snow and Ice
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 129 / 184 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Bulletin of Glaciological Research is Q3 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 129 of 184), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulletin of Glaciological Research 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.354, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
Bulletin of Glaciological Research is published by Japanese Society of Snow and Ice. Its print ISSN is 1345-3807 and its online ISSN is 1884-8044.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bulletin of Glaciological Research has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Bulletin of Glaciological Research published 3 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 11. 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 21 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Japan (72.6%), United States (9.5%) and Sweden (6.7%). 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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