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Dizhi Xuebao/Acta Geologica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9). Published by Geological Society of China.
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ISSN 0001-5717Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Geological Society of China
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 100 / 333 | 70th | 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 2019–present (also 2016, 1992–1998, 1979–1988), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Dizhi Xuebao/Acta Geologica Sinica is Q2 in Geology (rank 100 of 333), by CiteScore 2025.
Dizhi Xuebao/Acta Geologica Sinica 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 3.9, quartile Q2, 70th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.686, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
Dizhi Xuebao/Acta Geologica Sinica is published by Geological Society of China. Its ISSN is 0001-5717.
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.
Dizhi Xuebao/Acta Geologica Sinica has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #252 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Dizhi Xuebao/Acta Geologica Sinica published 1 papers in 2010; its busiest recent year was 1986 with 18. 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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