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Journal of Metamorphic Geology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0263-4929Verify ISSN ↗1525-1314Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$5,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 26 / 333 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 14 / 164 | 91st | Q1 |
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 8.9.
Journal of Metamorphic Geology is Q1 in Geology (rank 26 of 333) and Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 14 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Metamorphic Geology 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 8.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.035, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 135.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,000 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 Metamorphic Geology is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0263-4929 and its online ISSN is 1525-1314.
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 Metamorphic Geology has an h-index of 155 and a 2-year mean of 2.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #73 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Journal of Metamorphic Geology published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 77. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (14%), China (13.4%) and United Kingdom (10%).
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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