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Geology and Exploration is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), DOAJ. Published by Editorial Board of Geology and Exploration.
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ISSN 0495-5331Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Board of Geology and Exploration
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economic Geology | 29 / 52 | 45th | Q3 |
| Geophysics | 105 / 183 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Geology | 206 / 333 | 38th | Q3 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 105 / 164 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Geology and Exploration is Q3 in Economic Geology (rank 29 of 52), Q3 in Geophysics (rank 105 of 183) and Q3 in Geology (rank 206 of 333), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Geology and Exploration 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, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.299, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
Geology and Exploration is published by Editorial Board of Geology and Exploration. Its ISSN is 0495-5331.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Geology and Exploration has an h-index of 9 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 #42 of 49 Scopus journals in Economic Geology.
Geology and Exploration published 91 papers in 2008; its busiest recent year was 2000 with 154. 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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