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Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), WoS SCIE. Published by National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research.
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ISSN 2582-6506Verify ISSN ↗2582-6727Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 131 / 154 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present (also 2007–2010), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences is Q4 in Oceanography (rank 131 of 154), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences 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, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 15th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.170, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 45.
Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences is published by National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research. Its print ISSN is 2582-6506 and its online ISSN is 2582-6727.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 131. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (78%), Mexico (3.2%) and Egypt (2.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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