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Marine Geology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0025-3227Verify ISSN ↗1872-6151Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,770 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 35 / 154 | 77th | Q1 |
| Geology | 77 / 333 | 77th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 49 / 164 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Marine Geology is Q1 in Oceanography (rank 35 of 154), Q1 in Geology (rank 77 of 333) and Q2 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 49 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Marine Geology 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.812, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 167.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,770 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Marine Geology is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0025-3227 and its online ISSN is 1872-6151.
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.
Marine Geology has an h-index of 214 and a 2-year mean of 2.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
Marine Geology published 153 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 239. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (23.9%), United States (10.9%) and Spain (6.1%).
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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