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GeoScape is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Sciendo.
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ISSN 1802-1115Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sciendo
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 157 / 295 | 46th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 573 / 876 | 34th | Q3 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 158 / 231 | 31st | Q3 |
| Ecology | 361 / 491 | 26th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
GeoScape is Q3 in Urban Studies (rank 157 of 295), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 573 of 876) and Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 158 of 231), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
GeoScape is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.214, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
GeoScape is published by Sciendo. Its ISSN is 1802-1115.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
GeoScape has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 1.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
GeoScape published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 14. 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 72 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Czechia (33.3%), India (11.8%) and Slovakia (9.7%).
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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