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Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by CSIRO Publishing.
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ISSN 2206-5865Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 54 / 154 | 65th | Q2 |
| Atmospheric Science | 75 / 160 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 73 / 134 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science is Q2 in Oceanography (rank 54 of 154), Q2 in Atmospheric Science (rank 75 of 160) and Q3 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 73 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.938, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 19.
Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science is published by CSIRO Publishing. Its ISSN is 2206-5865.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 1.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 56. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Australia (66%), Argentina (7.3%) and Indonesia (6.3%). 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.
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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