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Mineralogical Magazine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Mineralogical Society.
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ISSN 0026-461XVerify ISSN ↗1471-8022Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mineralogical Society
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 78 / 164 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1978–1989, 1969–1970), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Mineralogical Magazine is Q2 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 78 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Mineralogical Magazine 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.524, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 87.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Mineralogical Magazine is published by Mineralogical Society. Its print ISSN is 0026-461X and its online ISSN is 1471-8022.
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.
Mineralogical Magazine has an h-index of 118 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 156 Scopus journals in Geochemistry and Petrology.
Mineralogical Magazine published 132 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 171. 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 89 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (23.5%), United States (13.2%) and Italy (9.6%).
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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