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Geophysics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
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ISSN 0016-8033Verify ISSN ↗1942-2156Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 23 / 183 | 87th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 31 / 164 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1936–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Geophysics is Q1 in Geophysics (rank 23 of 183) and Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 31 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Geophysics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.073, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 228.
Geophysics is published by Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Its print ISSN is 0016-8033 and its online ISSN is 1942-2156.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Geophysics has an h-index of 311 and a 2-year mean of 3.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Geophysics published 342 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 477. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (69.1%), United States (5.7%) and Canada (2.7%). 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. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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