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Geotechnical Testing Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. Published by ASTM International.
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ISSN 0149-6115Verify ISSN ↗1945-7545Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ASTM International
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 116 / 244 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present (also 1978–1981), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Geotechnical Testing Journal is Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 116 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Geotechnical Testing 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.536, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 81.
Geotechnical Testing Journal is published by ASTM International. Its print ISSN is 0149-6115 and its online ISSN is 1945-7545.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Geotechnical Testing Journal has an h-index of 99 and a 2-year mean of 3.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
Geotechnical Testing Journal published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 170. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (37.8%), United States (23.3%) and Canada (11.3%).
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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