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Developments in Earth Surface Processes is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0). Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0928-2025Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 181 / 184 | 1st | Q4 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 133 / 134 | 0th | Q4 |
| Atmospheric Science | 159 / 160 | 0th | Q4 |
| Geology | 333 / 333 | 0th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024 (also 2020, 2013–2017, 2011, 2009, 2005–2007, 1996–1998, 1992, 1989), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Developments in Earth Surface Processes is Q4 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 181 of 184), Q4 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 133 of 134) and Q4 in Atmospheric Science (rank 159 of 160), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Developments in Earth Surface Processes 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 0, quartile Q4, 1st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Developments in Earth Surface Processes is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 0928-2025.
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 Earth Surface Processes has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #148 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Developments in Earth Surface Processes published 15 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2009 with 52. 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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