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Quaternary Research (United States) is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0033-5894Verify ISSN ↗1096-0287Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 91 / 692 | 86th | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 55 / 201 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 53 / 184 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Quaternary Research (United States) is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 91 of 692), Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 55 of 201) and Q2 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 53 of 184), by CiteScore 2025.
Quaternary Research (United States) 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.735, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 135.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Quaternary Research (United States) is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0033-5894 and its online ISSN is 1096-0287.
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.
Quaternary Research (United States) has an h-index of 192 and a 2-year mean of 1.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Quaternary Research (United States) published 85 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 127. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (41.2%), China (6.8%) and United Kingdom (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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.
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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