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History of Geo- and Space Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Copernicus Publications.
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ISSN 2190-5010Verify ISSN ↗2190-5029Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 56 / 254 | 78th | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 120 / 201 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.7.
History of Geo- and Space Sciences is Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 56 of 254) and Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 120 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
History of Geo- and Space Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.296, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
History of Geo- and Space Sciences is published by Copernicus Publications. Its print ISSN is 2190-5010 and its online ISSN is 2190-5029.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
History of Geo- and Space Sciences has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
History of Geo- and Space Sciences published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 22. 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 48 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (14.2%), United Kingdom (11.1%) and Spain (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (4.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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