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Journal of Mountain Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Science Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1672-6316Verify ISSN ↗1993-0321Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 52 / 231 | 77th | Q1 |
| Geology | 84 / 333 | 74th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 228 / 876 | 74th | Q2 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 51 / 184 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 67 / 134 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Journal of Mountain Science is Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 52 of 231), Q2 in Geology (rank 84 of 333) and Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 228 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Mountain Science 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.606, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 64.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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 Mountain Science is published by Science Press. Its print ISSN is 1672-6316 and its online ISSN is 1993-0321.
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 Mountain Science has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 2.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Journal of Mountain Science published 281 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (73.6%), India (8.6%) and Australia (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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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