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Journal of South American Earth Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0895-9811Verify ISSN ↗1873-0647Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,940 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratigraphy | 19 / 56 | 66th | Q2 |
| Paleontology | 42 / 121 | 65th | Q2 |
| Geology | 134 / 333 | 59th | Q2 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 79 / 184 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1988–1992), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Journal of South American Earth Sciences is Q2 in Stratigraphy (rank 19 of 56), Q2 in Paleontology (rank 42 of 121) and Q2 in Geology (rank 134 of 333), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of South American Earth 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.570, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,940 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 South American Earth Sciences is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0895-9811 and its online ISSN is 1873-0647.
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 South American Earth Sciences has an h-index of 111 and a 2-year mean of 1.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 51 Scopus journals in Stratigraphy.
Journal of South American Earth Sciences published 464 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 576. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Argentina (31.9%), Brazil (28.3%) and Mexico (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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