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Journal of Geology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3). Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0022-1376Verify ISSN ↗1537-5269Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 123 / 333 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–2024 (also 1976–1977, 1973), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Journal of Geology is Q2 in Geology (rank 123 of 333), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Geology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.581, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 122.
Journal of Geology is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0022-1376 and its online ISSN is 1537-5269.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Geology has an h-index of 222 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #252 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Journal of Geology published 10 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 58. 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 76 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from United States (32%), China (25.3%) and Australia (6.3%).
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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