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Norwegian Journal of Geology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Geological Society of Norway.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2387-5844Verify ISSN ↗2387-5852Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Geological Society of Norway
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 92 / 183 | 50th | Q2 |
| Geology | 175 / 333 | 47th | Q3 |
| Paleontology | 65 / 121 | 46th | Q3 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 93 / 164 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Oceanography | 89 / 154 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Norwegian Journal of Geology is Q2 in Geophysics (rank 92 of 183), Q3 in Geology (rank 175 of 333) and Q3 in Paleontology (rank 65 of 121), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Norwegian Journal of Geology 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.218, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 54.
Norwegian Journal of Geology is published by Geological Society of Norway. Its print ISSN is 2387-5844 and its online ISSN is 2387-5852.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Norwegian Journal of Geology has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Norwegian Journal of Geology published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 30. 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 49 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Norway (70.9%), United States (5.1%) and Netherlands (4.8%). 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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