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Geographical Research Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of La Rioja.
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ISSN 0211-6820Verify ISSN ↗1697-9540Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of La Rioja
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 316 / 876 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 78 / 194 | 60th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 148 / 307 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Geographical Research Letters is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 316 of 876), Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 78 of 194) and Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 148 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Geographical Research Letters 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.387, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
Geographical Research Letters is published by University of La Rioja. Its print ISSN is 0211-6820 and its online ISSN is 1697-9540.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Geographical Research Letters has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #418 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Geographical Research Letters published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 53. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Spain (46.4%), Argentina (11.3%) and Mexico (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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