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Elementa is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by University of California Press.
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ISSN 2325-1026Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 9 / 154 | 94th | Q1 |
| Geology | 21 / 333 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Ecology | 38 / 491 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Atmospheric Science | 14 / 160 | 91st | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 31 / 244 | 87th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 43 / 241 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.2.
Elementa is Q1 in Oceanography (rank 9 of 154), Q1 in Geology (rank 21 of 333) and Q1 in Ecology (rank 38 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Elementa 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 9.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.489, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 68.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,450 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.
Elementa is published by University of California Press. Its ISSN is 2325-1026.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Elementa has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 3.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
Elementa published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 142. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.6%), Canada (12.8%) and Germany (5.4%).
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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