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Journal of the Geological Society of Korea is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI. Published by The Geological Society of Korea.
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ISSN 0435-4036Verify ISSN ↗2288-7377Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Geological Society of Korea
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 142 / 194 | 27th | Q3 |
| Geology | 253 / 333 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Journal of the Geological Society of Korea is Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 142 of 194) and Q4 in Geology (rank 253 of 333), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Geological Society of Korea is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 27th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.228, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Journal of the Geological Society of Korea is published by The Geological Society of Korea. Its print ISSN is 0435-4036 and its online ISSN is 2288-7377.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Geological Society of Korea has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #124 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of the Geological Society of Korea published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 83. 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.
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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