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Palaios is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. Published by SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology.
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ISSN 0883-1351Verify ISSN ↗1938-5323Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paleontology | 32 / 121 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 255 / 736 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Palaios is Q2 in Paleontology (rank 32 of 121) and Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 255 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Palaios 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.585, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 94.
Palaios is published by SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology. Its print ISSN is 0883-1351 and its online ISSN is 1938-5323.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Palaios has an h-index of 130 and a 2-year mean of 1.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 113 Scopus journals in Paleontology.
Palaios published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 64. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (43%), Canada (11.2%) and Argentina (5.7%).
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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