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Open Quaternary is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.7), DOAJ. Published by Ubiquity Press.
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ISSN 2055-298XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology | 66 / 388 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 151 / 536 | 71st | Q2 |
| Ecology | 310 / 491 | 36th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 166 / 249 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 108 / 134 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.7.
Open Quaternary is Q1 in Archeology (rank 66 of 388), Q2 in Anthropology (rank 151 of 536) and Q3 in Ecology (rank 310 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Open Quaternary is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1, 83rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.367, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$490 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.
Open Quaternary is published by Ubiquity Press. Its ISSN is 2055-298X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Quaternary has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 339 Scopus journals in Archeology.
Open Quaternary published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 14. 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 48 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (14.2%), United States (10.8%) and France (9.4%).
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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