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International Journal of Coal Geology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0166-5162Verify ISSN ↗1872-7840Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratigraphy | 1 / 56 | 99th | Q1 |
| Geology | 5 / 333 | 98th | Q1 |
| Economic Geology | 3 / 52 | 95th | Q1 |
| Fuel Technology | 21 / 138 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.9.
International Journal of Coal Geology is Q1 in Stratigraphy (rank 1 of 56), Q1 in Geology (rank 5 of 333) and Q1 in Economic Geology (rank 3 of 52), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Coal 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 11.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.815, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 191.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,090 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.
International Journal of Coal Geology is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0166-5162 and its online ISSN is 1872-7840.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Coal Geology has an h-index of 197 and a 2-year mean of 5.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 51 Scopus journals in Stratigraphy.
International Journal of Coal Geology published 147 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 214. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (42.4%), United States (11.5%) and Poland (7.2%).
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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