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Journal of Applied Geodesy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1862-9016Verify ISSN ↗1862-9024Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 202 / 397 | 49th | Q3 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 101 / 194 | 48th | Q3 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 156 / 300 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Journal of Applied Geodesy is Q3 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 202 of 397), Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 101 of 194) and Q3 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 156 of 300), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Applied Geodesy 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.392, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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 Applied Geodesy is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1862-9016 and its online ISSN is 1862-9024.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Applied Geodesy has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #189 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Journal of Applied Geodesy published 64 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (17.7%), Germany (11.1%) and Egypt (11.1%).
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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