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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), WoS SCIE. Published by Seismological Society of America.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0037-1106Verify ISSN ↗1943-3573Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Seismological Society of America
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 28 / 183 | 84th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 34 / 164 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present (also 1974, 1969–1971), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America is Q1 in Geophysics (rank 28 of 183) and Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 34 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.151, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 187.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America is published by Seismological Society of America. Its print ISSN is 0037-1106 and its online ISSN is 1943-3573.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America has an h-index of 264 and a 2-year mean of 3.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America published 179 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 265. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (38.4%), China (9.8%) and Japan (7.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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