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Himalayan Geology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS SCIE. Published by Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology.
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ISSN 0971-8966Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 112 / 194 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Himalayan Geology is Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 112 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Himalayan Geology 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.264, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Himalayan Geology is published by Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology. Its ISSN is 0971-8966.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Himalayan Geology has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #166 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Himalayan Geology published 2 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 9. 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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