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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by SpringerOpen.
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ISSN 2197-4284Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SpringerOpen
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 47 / 201 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 47 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Progress in Earth and Planetary 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.052, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 55.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,870 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.
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science is published by SpringerOpen. Its ISSN is 2197-4284.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 2.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science published 115 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (76%), United States (5.1%) and South Korea (1.9%). 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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