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Journal of Arid Land is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 1674-6767Verify ISSN ↗2194-7783Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
Cost to publish: About US$2,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 31 / 184 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Water Science and Technology | 68 / 279 | 75th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 123 / 432 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Journal of Arid Land is Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 31 of 184), Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 68 of 279) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 123 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Arid Land 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.818, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 52.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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 Arid Land is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 1674-6767 and its online ISSN is 2194-7783.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Arid Land has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 3.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Journal of Arid Land published 95 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 96. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (81.7%), Iran (3.8%) and Tunisia (3.2%). 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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