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Geographical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6). Published by Japanese Society for Geographical Sciences.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0286-4886Verify ISSN ↗2432-096XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society for Geographical Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 501 / 876 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 121 / 194 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 1982), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Geographical Sciences is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 501 of 876) and Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 121 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Geographical Sciences is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3, 42nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.202, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Geographical Sciences is published by Japanese Society for Geographical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 0286-4886 and its online ISSN is 2432-096X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Geographical Sciences has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #776 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Geographical Sciences published 5 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 15. 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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