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Geography Compass is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1749-8198Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 21 / 286 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 20 / 184 | 89th | Q1 |
| Water Science and Technology | 50 / 279 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Atmospheric Science | 32 / 160 | 80th | Q1 |
| Computers in Earth Sciences | 18 / 76 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Geography Compass is Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 21 of 286), Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 20 of 184) and Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 50 of 279), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Geography Compass is indexed in the 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.495, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 97.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,700 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Geography Compass is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 1749-8198.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Geography Compass has an h-index of 115 and a 2-year mean of 3.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Geography Compass published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 73. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (20.7%), United States (16.7%) and Australia (13.8%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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