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Research in Cold and Arid Regions is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2097-1583Verify ISSN ↗2949-7302Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 65 / 184 | 64th | Q2 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 103 / 244 | 57th | Q2 |
| Environmental Engineering | 105 / 241 | 56th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 137 / 307 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Research in Cold and Arid Regions is Q2 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 65 of 184), Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 103 of 244) and Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 105 of 241), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Research in Cold and Arid Regions 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.515, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Research in Cold and Arid Regions is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2097-1583 and its online ISSN is 2949-7302.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Research in Cold and Arid Regions has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 2.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Research in Cold and Arid Regions published 75 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.
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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