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Polar Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Norwegian Polar Institute.
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ISSN 0800-0395Verify ISSN ↗1751-8369Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Norwegian Polar Institute
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 94 / 194 | 51st | Q2 |
| Oceanography | 78 / 154 | 49th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 132 / 249 | 47th | Q3 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 115 / 157 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Polar Research is Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 94 of 194), Q3 in Oceanography (rank 78 of 154) and Q3 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 132 of 249), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Polar Research 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.431, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 64.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$852 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.
Polar Research is published by Norwegian Polar Institute. Its print ISSN is 0800-0395 and its online ISSN is 1751-8369.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Polar Research has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 1.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #105 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Polar Research published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 61. 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 96 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Norway (21.5%), Canada (11%) and United States (9.2%).
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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