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Polarforschung is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), DOAJ. Published by Copernicus Publications.
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ISSN 0032-2490Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 147 / 154 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2024 (also 2016–2018, 2008–2014, 1999–2006, 1992–1997, 1988–1990, 1984–1985, 1982, 1978–1980), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Polarforschung is Q4 in Oceanography (rank 147 of 154), by CiteScore 2025.
Polarforschung 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 4th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.123, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 31.
Polarforschung is published by Copernicus Publications. Its ISSN is 0032-2490.
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.
Polarforschung has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #130 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
Polarforschung published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 24. 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 60 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (83.6%), New Zealand (3.3%) and Netherlands (2.2%). 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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