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Journal of Quaternary Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 0267-8179Verify ISSN ↗1099-1417Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,310 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 75 / 692 | 89th | Q1 |
| Paleontology | 14 / 121 | 88th | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 50 / 194 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Journal of Quaternary Science is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 75 of 692), Q1 in Paleontology (rank 14 of 121) and Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 50 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Quaternary 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.866, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 111.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,310 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 Quaternary Science is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0267-8179 and its online ISSN is 1099-1417.
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 Quaternary Science has an h-index of 130 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #90 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Journal of Quaternary Science published 110 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 152. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (21.8%), Spain (7%) 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.
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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