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Journal of African Earth Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1464-343XVerify ISSN ↗1879-1956Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,370 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 81 / 333 | 75th | Q1 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 48 / 184 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Journal of African Earth Sciences is Q1 in Geology (rank 81 of 333) and Q2 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 48 of 184), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of African Earth 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.599, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 107.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,370 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.
Journal of African Earth Sciences is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1464-343X and its online ISSN is 1879-1956.
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.
Journal of African Earth Sciences has an h-index of 125 and a 2-year mean of 2.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Journal of African Earth Sciences published 369 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Egypt (10.7%), Morocco (10.4%) and Iran (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 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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