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Earth Sciences History is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by History of the Earth Sciences Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0736-623XVerify ISSN ↗1944-6187Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: History of the Earth Sciences Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 119 / 254 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 170 / 201 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025 (also 1988, 1985), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Earth Sciences History is Q2 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 119 of 254) and Q4 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 170 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Earth Sciences History is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.138, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Earth Sciences History is published by History of the Earth Sciences Society. Its print ISSN is 0736-623X and its online ISSN is 1944-6187.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Earth Sciences History has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #167 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
Earth Sciences History published 36 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 73 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (22%), United States (20.7%) and Italy (15.1%).
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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