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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0028-8306Verify ISSN ↗1175-8791Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 102 / 333 | 69th | Q2 |
| Geophysics | 57 / 183 | 69th | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 62 / 194 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1958–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics is Q2 in Geology (rank 102 of 333), Q2 in Geophysics (rank 57 of 183) and Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 62 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.703, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 64.
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0028-8306 and its online ISSN is 1175-8791.
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.
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 1.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 58. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from New Zealand (44.1%), South Korea (7.8%) and China (6.3%).
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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