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Geology Today is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0266-6979Verify ISSN ↗1365-2451Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$1,100 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratigraphy | 21 / 56 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Paleontology | 50 / 121 | 59th | Q2 |
| Geology | 148 / 333 | 55th | Q2 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 87 / 184 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present (also 1985–2004), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Geology Today is Q2 in Stratigraphy (rank 21 of 56), Q2 in Paleontology (rank 50 of 121) and Q2 in Geology (rank 148 of 333), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Geology Today 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 2.7, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.576, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,100 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.
Geology Today is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0266-6979 and its online ISSN is 1365-2451.
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.
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.
Geology Today has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 51 Scopus journals in Stratigraphy.
Geology Today published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 48. 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 45 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (47.4%), United States (10.8%) and France (8.7%).
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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