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Clays and Clay Minerals is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0009-8604Verify ISSN ↗1552-8367Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 56 / 194 | 71st | Q2 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 55 / 164 | 66th | Q2 |
| Soil Science | 59 / 167 | 64th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 114 / 279 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
Clays and Clay Minerals is Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 56 of 194), Q2 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 55 of 164) and Q2 in Soil Science (rank 59 of 167), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Clays and Clay Minerals 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.510, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 105.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Clays and Clay Minerals is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0009-8604 and its online ISSN is 1552-8367.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clays and Clay Minerals has an h-index of 162 and a 2-year mean of 2.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Clays and Clay Minerals published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 62. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (22.5%), United States (7.5%) and Türkiye (6.7%).
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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