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Leading Edge is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
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ISSN 1070-485XVerify ISSN ↗1938-3789Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 81 / 183 | 56th | Q2 |
| Geology | 154 / 333 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–2025 (also 1982–1984, 1958), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Leading Edge is Q2 in Geophysics (rank 81 of 183) and Q2 in Geology (rank 154 of 333), by CiteScore 2025.
Leading Edge 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.363, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 104.
Leading Edge is published by Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Its print ISSN is 1070-485X and its online ISSN is 1938-3789.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Leading Edge has an h-index of 114 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #101 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Leading Edge published 211 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 282. 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 44 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (46.2%), Saudi Arabia (8%) and Japan (4.5%).
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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