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Polar Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1873-9652Verify ISSN ↗1876-4428Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 245 / 736 | 66th | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 73 / 201 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Ecology | 183 / 491 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Aquatic Science | 101 / 259 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Polar Science is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 245 of 736), Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 73 of 201) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 183 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Polar Science 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.450, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,570 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 Science is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1873-9652 and its online ISSN is 1876-4428.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Polar Science has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #207 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Polar Science published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 110. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (31.5%), Russia (14.4%) and India (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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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