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Earth and Planetary Science Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.7), 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 0012-821XVerify ISSN ↗1385-013XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,670 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 6 / 183 | 96th | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 12 / 194 | 94th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 11 / 164 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 14 / 105 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1966–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.7.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters is Q1 in Geophysics (rank 6 of 183), Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 12 of 194) and Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 11 of 164), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 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 9.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.310, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 314.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,670 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.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0012-821X and its online ISSN is 1385-013X.
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.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters has an h-index of 402 and a 2-year mean of 4.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters published 461 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 594. 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 (25%), United States (23.5%) and France (8.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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