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Geography Research Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
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ISSN 0333-5275Verify ISSN ↗2414-8725Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 703 / 876 | 19th | Q4 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 149 / 184 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2022, 2019–2020, 2015–2016, 1995–2013, 1990–1993), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Geography Research Forum is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 703 of 876) and Q4 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 149 of 184), by CiteScore 2025.
Geography Research Forum 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 0.7, quartile Q4, 19th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.227, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Geography Research Forum is published by Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Its print ISSN is 0333-5275 and its online ISSN is 2414-8725.
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.
Geography Research Forum has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #776 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Geography Research Forum published 2 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 69. 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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