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Economic Geology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Society of Economic Geologists, Inc.
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ISSN 0361-0128Verify ISSN ↗1554-0774Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists, Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 4 / 183 | 98th | Q1 |
| Geology | 13 / 333 | 96th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 9 / 164 | 94th | Q1 |
| Economic Geology | 5 / 52 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1905–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.3.
Economic Geology is Q1 in Geophysics (rank 4 of 183), Q1 in Geology (rank 13 of 333) and Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 9 of 164), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Economic Geology 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 10.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.258, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 157.
Economic Geology is published by Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. Its print ISSN is 0361-0128 and its online ISSN is 1554-0774.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Economic Geology has an h-index of 212 and a 2-year mean of 5.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Economic Geology published 100 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 124. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Canada (23.8%), United States (16.9%) and China (16%).
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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