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Italian Journal of Geosciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Societa Geologica Italiana.
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ISSN 2038-1719Verify ISSN ↗2038-1727Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Societa Geologica Italiana
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 152 / 333 | 54th | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 97 / 201 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Italian Journal of Geosciences is Q2 in Geology (rank 152 of 333) and Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 97 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Italian Journal of Geosciences 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.511, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 48.
Italian Journal of Geosciences is published by Societa Geologica Italiana. Its print ISSN is 2038-1719 and its online ISSN is 2038-1727.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Italian Journal of Geosciences has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 1.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Italian Journal of Geosciences published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 36. 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 25 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Italy (56%), United States (6%) and Tunisia (6%). 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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