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China Geology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2096-5192Verify ISSN ↗2589-9430Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 17 / 184 | 91st | Q1 |
| Oceanography | 15 / 154 | 90th | Q1 |
| Geology | 38 / 333 | 88th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 21 / 164 | 87th | Q1 |
| Computers in Earth Sciences | 16 / 76 | 79th | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 51 / 244 | 79th | Q1 |
| Economic Geology | 14 / 52 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
China Geology is Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 17 of 184), Q1 in Oceanography (rank 15 of 154) and Q1 in Geology (rank 38 of 333), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
China Geology 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 7.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.902, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$800 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
China Geology is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2096-5192 and its online ISSN is 2589-9430.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
China Geology has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 2.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
China Geology published 83 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 87. 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 15 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (81.7%), Japan (5%) and Canada (3.3%). 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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