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Natural Hazards Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2666-5921Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 13 / 194 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 59 / 876 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 33 / 307 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.7.
Natural Hazards Research is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 13 of 194), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 59 of 876) and Q1 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 33 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Natural Hazards Research 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 9.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.097, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Natural Hazards Research is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2666-5921.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Natural Hazards Research has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 6.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Natural Hazards Research published 81 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 106. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (14.4%), India (8%) and Japan (6.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (5.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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