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Geosciences Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Korean Association of Geoscience Societies.
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ISSN 1226-4806Verify ISSN ↗1598-7477Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Association of Geoscience Societies
Cost to publish: About US$2,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 102 / 201 | 49th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 143 / 249 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Geosciences Journal is Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 102 of 201) and Q3 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 143 of 249), by CiteScore 2025.
Geosciences Journal 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.407, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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.
Geosciences Journal is published by Korean Association of Geoscience Societies. Its print ISSN is 1226-4806 and its online ISSN is 1598-7477.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Geosciences Journal has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
Geosciences Journal published 81 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 135. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (49%), China (25.2%) and India (6.3%).
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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