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Journal of the Geological Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Geological Society of London.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0016-7649Verify ISSN ↗2041-479XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 61 / 333 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1933–present (also 1845–1931), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Journal of the Geological Society is Q1 in Geology (rank 61 of 333), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Geological Society 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.084, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 140.
Journal of the Geological Society is published by Geological Society of London. Its print ISSN is 0016-7649 and its online ISSN is 2041-479X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Geological Society has an h-index of 188 and a 2-year mean of 2.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Journal of the Geological Society published 166 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (18.8%), Brazil (14.3%) and China (11.4%).
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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