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Pesquisas em Geociencias is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
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ISSN 1518-2398Verify ISSN ↗1807-9806Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 171 / 201 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Pesquisas em Geociencias is Q4 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 171 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Pesquisas em Geociencias 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 0.7, quartile Q4, 15th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 22.
Pesquisas em Geociencias is published by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Its print ISSN is 1518-2398 and its online ISSN is 1807-9806.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pesquisas em Geociencias has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #156 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
Pesquisas em Geociencias published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 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 86 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (94.2%), Morocco (2.3%) and Indonesia (1.2%). 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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