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Geologica Balcanica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1). Published by Geological Institute “Strashimir Dimitrov”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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ISSN 0324-0894Verify ISSN ↗2535-1060Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Geological Institute “Strashimir Dimitrov”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratigraphy | 41 / 56 | 27th | Q3 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 122 / 164 | 25th | Q3 |
| Geology | 250 / 333 | 25th | Q3 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 189 / 244 | 22nd | 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 2019–present (also 1993–1996, 1987, 1981–1985, 1977–1979), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Geologica Balcanica is Q3 in Stratigraphy (rank 41 of 56), Q3 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 122 of 164) and Q3 in Geology (rank 250 of 333), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Geologica Balcanica 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 1.1, quartile Q3, 27th 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 Q4, with an H-index of 9.
Geologica Balcanica is published by Geological Institute “Strashimir Dimitrov”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Its print ISSN is 0324-0894 and its online ISSN is 2535-1060.
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.
Geologica Balcanica has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 51 Scopus journals in Stratigraphy.
Geologica Balcanica published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 37. 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 74 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Bulgaria (80.3%), Russia (2.7%) and Switzerland (2%). 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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