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Global Biogeochemical Cycles is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0886-6236Verify ISSN ↗1944-9224Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$4,070 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Science | 11 / 160 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 27 / 249 | 89th | Q1 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 17 / 134 | 87th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 35 / 157 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles is Q1 in Atmospheric Science (rank 11 of 160), Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 27 of 249) and Q1 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 17 of 134), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 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 10, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.941, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 224.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,070 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.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0886-6236 and its online ISSN is 1944-9224.
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.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles has an h-index of 289 and a 2-year mean of 4.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 157 Scopus journals in Atmospheric Science.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles published 192 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (24.5%), China (22.7%) and Germany (7.4%).
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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