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Indian Geotechnical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer India.
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ISSN 0971-9555Verify ISSN ↗2277-3347Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer India
Cost to publish: About US$2,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 120 / 244 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present (also 1972–1989), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Indian Geotechnical Journal is Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 120 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Geotechnical Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.420, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,190 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.
Indian Geotechnical Journal is published by Springer India. Its print ISSN is 0971-9555 and its online ISSN is 2277-3347.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Geotechnical Journal has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 2.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #84 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
Indian Geotechnical Journal published 317 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (37.1%), China (31.9%) and Iran (5.4%).
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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