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GeoFocus is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Geographical Information Technologies Working Group.
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ISSN 1578-5157Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Geographical Information Technologies Working Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 741 / 876 | 15th | Q4 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 202 / 231 | 12th | Q4 |
| Environmental Engineering | 217 / 241 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
GeoFocus is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 741 of 876), Q4 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 202 of 231) and Q4 in Environmental Engineering (rank 217 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
GeoFocus is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 15th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.170, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
GeoFocus is published by Geographical Information Technologies Working Group. Its ISSN is 1578-5157.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
GeoFocus has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #563 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
GeoFocus published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 23. 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 52 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Spain (56.3%), Mexico (7.7%) and Argentina (7.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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