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Cold Regions Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0165-232XVerify ISSN ↗1872-7441Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,960 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 19 / 201 | 90th | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 41 / 244 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
Cold Regions Science and Technology is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 19 of 201) and Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 41 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Cold Regions Science and Technology 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 8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.077, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 116.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,960 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.
Cold Regions Science and Technology is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0165-232X and its online ISSN is 1872-7441.
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.
Cold Regions Science and Technology has an h-index of 135 and a 2-year mean of 3.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
Cold Regions Science and Technology published 307 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (60.2%), United States (6.9%) and Canada (5.3%). 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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