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Developments in Clay Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8). Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1572-4352Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 143 / 333 | 57th | Q2 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 81 / 164 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–2025 (also 2022, 2015–2018, 2011–2013, 2006), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Developments in Clay Science is Q2 in Geology (rank 143 of 333) and Q2 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 81 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Developments in Clay Science 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 2.8, quartile Q2, 57th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 52.
Developments in Clay Science is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 1572-4352.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Developments in Clay Science has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #191 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Developments in Clay Science published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 68. 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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