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Geoscientific Model Development is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Copernicus Publications.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1991-959XVerify ISSN ↗1991-9603Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 25 / 397 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 14 / 201 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.8.
Geoscientific Model Development is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 25 of 397) and Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 14 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Geoscientific Model Development 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 8.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.134, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 159.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,725 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.
Geoscientific Model Development is published by Copernicus Publications. Its print ISSN is 1991-959X and its online ISSN is 1991-9603.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Geoscientific Model Development has an h-index of 204 and a 2-year mean of 4.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Geoscientific Model Development published 448 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (14.5%), China (14.4%) and Germany (13.4%).
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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