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Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Science China Press.
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ISSN 0256-1492Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science China Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 139 / 183 | 24th | Q4 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 128 / 164 | 21st | Q4 |
| Geology | 263 / 333 | 21st | Q4 |
| Oceanography | 132 / 154 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present (also 1991–1992), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology is Q4 in Geophysics (rank 139 of 183), Q4 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 128 of 164) and Q4 in Geology (rank 263 of 333), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4, 24th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.238, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology is published by Science China Press. Its ISSN is 0256-1492.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #138 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology published 32 papers in 2015; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 177. 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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