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Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS SCIE. Published by Tohoku University.
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ISSN 1345-6296Verify ISSN ↗1349-3825Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tohoku University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 100 / 183 | 45th | Q3 |
| Geology | 194 / 333 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences is Q3 in Geophysics (rank 100 of 183) and Q3 in Geology (rank 194 of 333), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.425, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 38.
Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences is published by Tohoku University. Its print ISSN is 1345-6296 and its online ISSN is 1349-3825.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 0.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #87 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 49. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (87.7%), China (4.1%) and Egypt (1%). 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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