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Episodes is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. Published by International Union of Geological Sciences.
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ISSN 0705-3797Verify ISSN ↗2586-1298Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Union of Geological Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 81 / 201 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1992, 1979–1989), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Episodes is Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 81 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Episodes 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.462, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 89.
Episodes is published by International Union of Geological Sciences. Its print ISSN is 0705-3797 and its online ISSN is 2586-1298.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Episodes has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 1.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
Episodes published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 103. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (17.2%), China (16.5%) and India (7%).
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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