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Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Copernicus Publications.
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ISSN 1561-8633Verify ISSN ↗1684-9981Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 16 / 201 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.2.
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 16 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 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 8.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.418, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 141.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,553 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.
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences is published by Copernicus Publications. Its print ISSN is 1561-8633 and its online ISSN is 1684-9981.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences has an h-index of 166 and a 2-year mean of 5.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences published 256 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Italy (11.2%), Germany (11%) and China (10.9%).
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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