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Lithology and Mineral Resources is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 0024-4902Verify ISSN ↗1608-3229Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economic Geology | 34 / 52 | 35th | Q3 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 113 / 164 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 1992, 1984–1986), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Lithology and Mineral Resources is Q3 in Economic Geology (rank 34 of 52) and Q3 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 113 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Lithology and Mineral Resources 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.375, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
Lithology and Mineral Resources is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0024-4902 and its online ISSN is 1608-3229.
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.
Lithology and Mineral Resources has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 49 Scopus journals in Economic Geology.
Lithology and Mineral Resources published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 44. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Russia (88.4%), India (2%) and Vietnam (1.9%). 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.
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