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Moscow University Geology Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 0145-8752Verify ISSN ↗1934-8436Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 177 / 201 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present (also 1988, 1984–1985, 1979), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Moscow University Geology Bulletin is Q4 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 177 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Moscow University Geology Bulletin 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 12th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.236, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
Moscow University Geology Bulletin is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0145-8752 and its online ISSN is 1934-8436.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Moscow University Geology Bulletin has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #140 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
Moscow University Geology Bulletin published 91 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 92. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (93.9%), United Kingdom (1.5%) and Afghanistan (1%). 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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