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Climate of the Past is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Copernicus Publications.
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ISSN 1814-9324Verify ISSN ↗1814-9332Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paleontology | 3 / 121 | 97th | Q1 |
| Stratigraphy | 6 / 56 | 90th | Q1 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 50 / 134 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Climate of the Past is Q1 in Paleontology (rank 3 of 121), Q1 in Stratigraphy (rank 6 of 56) and Q2 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 50 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Climate of the Past 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.733, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 110.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,725 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.
Climate of the Past is published by Copernicus Publications. Its print ISSN is 1814-9324 and its online ISSN is 1814-9332.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Climate of the Past has an h-index of 133 and a 2-year mean of 3.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 113 Scopus journals in Paleontology.
Climate of the Past published 122 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 135. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (13.3%), United States (11.6%) and United Kingdom (10.5%).
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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