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Journal of Cave and Karst Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SCIE. Published by National Speleological Society Inc..
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ISSN 1090-6924Verify ISSN ↗2331-3714Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Speleological Society Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 143 / 184 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies is Q4 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 143 of 184), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.149, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 50.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies is published by National Speleological Society Inc. Its print ISSN is 1090-6924 and its online ISSN is 2331-3714.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #130 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 22. 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 42 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (67.9%), Germany (3.6%) and Türkiye (3.6%). 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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