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Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Geological Society of London.
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ISSN 1470-9236Verify ISSN ↗2041-4803Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 149 / 333 | 55th | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 95 / 194 | 51st | Q2 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 130 / 244 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology is Q2 in Geology (rank 149 of 333), Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 95 of 194) and Q3 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 130 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.330, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 55.
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology is published by Geological Society of London. Its print ISSN is 1470-9236 and its online ISSN is 2041-4803.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #114 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 71. 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 90 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (46.7%), United Kingdom (25.4%) and Türkiye (4.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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