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Geothermics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0375-6505Verify ISSN ↗1879-3576Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,220 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 28 / 333 | 91st | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 40 / 244 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 108 / 345 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present (also 1972–1975, 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.2.
Geothermics is Q1 in Geology (rank 28 of 333), Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 40 of 244) and Q2 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 108 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Geothermics 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 8.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.102, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 110.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,220 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.
Geothermics is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0375-6505 and its online ISSN is 1879-3576.
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.
Geothermics has an h-index of 125 and a 2-year mean of 4.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Geothermics published 278 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (29.6%), United States (12.7%) and Japan (5.8%).
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 1 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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