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Carsologica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), DOAJ. Published by Institute of Karst Geology of Chinese Academy of Geology Sciences.
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ISSN 1001-4810Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Karst Geology of Chinese Academy of Geology Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratigraphy | 29 / 56 | 49th | Q3 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 125 / 231 | 46th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 191 / 307 | 37th | Q3 |
| Water Science and Technology | 190 / 279 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 1986, 1982), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Carsologica Sinica is Q3 in Stratigraphy (rank 29 of 56), Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 125 of 231) and Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 191 of 307), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Carsologica Sinica 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 1.9, quartile Q3, 49th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.357, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
Carsologica Sinica is published by Institute of Karst Geology of Chinese Academy of Geology Sciences. Its ISSN is 1001-4810.
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.
Carsologica Sinica has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 51 Scopus journals in Stratigraphy.
Carsologica Sinica published 8 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 82. 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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