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Geological Review is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7). Published by Science China Press.
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ISSN 0371-5736Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science China Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratigraphy | 33 / 56 | 41st | Q3 |
| Geophysics | 107 / 183 | 41st | Q3 |
| Geology | 212 / 333 | 36th | Q3 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 108 / 164 | 34th | 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 2020–present (also 1996), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Geological Review is Q3 in Stratigraphy (rank 33 of 56), Q3 in Geophysics (rank 107 of 183) and Q3 in Geology (rank 212 of 333), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Geological Review 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 1.7, quartile Q3, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.324, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
Geological Review is published by Science China Press. Its ISSN is 0371-5736.
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.
Geological Review has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 51 Scopus journals in Stratigraphy.
Geological Review published 8 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 100. 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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