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Geotechnique is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by ICE Publishing.
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ISSN 0016-8505Verify ISSN ↗1751-7656Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ICE Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 4 / 194 | 98th | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 8 / 244 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1948–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.
Geotechnique is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 4 of 194) and Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 8 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Geotechnique 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 14, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.054, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 191.
Geotechnique is published by ICE Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0016-8505 and its online ISSN is 1751-7656.
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.
Geotechnique has an h-index of 250 and a 2-year mean of 5.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Geotechnique published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 130. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (19.4%), United Kingdom (15.8%) and Australia (13.9%).
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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