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Elements is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE. Published by Mineralogical Society of America.
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ISSN 1811-5209Verify ISSN ↗1811-5217Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 46 / 194 | 76th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 46 / 164 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973 (also 2006–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Elements is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 46 of 194) and Q2 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 46 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Elements 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.921, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 113.
Elements is published by Mineralogical Society of America. Its print ISSN is 1811-5209 and its online ISSN is 1811-5217.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Elements has an h-index of 131 and a 2-year mean of 1.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #85 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Elements published 170 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 170. 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 33 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (38.4%), Germany (12.1%) and France (11.9%).
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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