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Quaternary Science Advances is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2666-0334Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 63 / 333 | 81st | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 39 / 194 | 80th | Q1 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 40 / 184 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Quaternary Science Advances is Q1 in Geology (rank 63 of 333), Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 39 of 194) and Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 40 of 184), by CiteScore 2025.
Quaternary Science Advances is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.755, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,760 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 Science Advances is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2666-0334.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Quaternary Science Advances has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 4.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Quaternary Science Advances published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 95. 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 89 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (15.4%), Ethiopia (10.9%) and United States (9.6%).
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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