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GSA Field Guides is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Geological Society of America.
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ISSN 2333-0937Verify ISSN ↗2333-0945Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 162 / 184 | 12th | Q4 |
| Geology | 311 / 333 | 6th | Q4 |
| Paleontology | 114 / 121 | 6th | Q4 |
| Stratigraphy | 54 / 56 | 4th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present (also 2016–2021, 2003–2014, 1999–2000), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
GSA Field Guides is Q4 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 162 of 184), Q4 in Geology (rank 311 of 333) and Q4 in Paleontology (rank 114 of 121), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
GSA Field Guides is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4, 12th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.122, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 22.
GSA Field Guides is published by Geological Society of America. Its print ISSN is 2333-0937 and its online ISSN is 2333-0945.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
GSA Field Guides has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #152 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
GSA Field Guides published 15 papers in 2017; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 18. 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.
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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