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Canadian Geotechnical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Canadian Science Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0008-3674Verify ISSN ↗1208-6010Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 104 / 434 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present (also 1974, 1968–1971), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Canadian Geotechnical Journal is Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 104 of 434), by CiteScore 2025.
Canadian Geotechnical Journal 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.282, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 170.
Canadian Geotechnical Journal is published by Canadian Science Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0008-3674 and its online ISSN is 1208-6010.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Canadian Geotechnical Journal has an h-index of 202 and a 2-year mean of 3.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 385 Scopus journals in Civil and Structural Engineering.
Canadian Geotechnical Journal published 274 papers in 2025. 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 China (52.2%), Hong Kong SAR China (8%) and Australia (6.5%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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