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Erdkunde is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Erdkunde.
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ISSN 0014-0015Verify ISSN ↗2702-5985Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Erdkunde
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 426 / 876 | 51st | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 109 / 201 | 46th | Q3 |
| Ecology | 275 / 491 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present (also 1976), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Erdkunde is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 426 of 876), Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 109 of 201) and Q3 in Ecology (rank 275 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Erdkunde 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.276, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 44.
Erdkunde is published by Erdkunde. Its print ISSN is 0014-0015 and its online ISSN is 2702-5985.
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.
Erdkunde has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 1.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #407 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Erdkunde published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 29. 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.
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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