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Geotechnique Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), 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 2045-2543Verify ISSN ↗2049-825XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ICE Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 71 / 194 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 104 / 244 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Geotechnique Letters is Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 71 of 194) and Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 104 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Geotechnique Letters 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.708, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
Geotechnique Letters is published by ICE Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2045-2543 and its online ISSN is 2049-825X.
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 Letters has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 1.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Geotechnique Letters published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 78. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (26.6%), United States (15.1%) and United Kingdom (7.3%).
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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