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Researches in Earth Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Shahid Beheshti University.
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ISSN 2008-8299Verify ISSN ↗2588-5898Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Shahid Beheshti University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 193 / 201 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Researches in Earth Sciences is Q4 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 193 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Researches in Earth Sciences is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4, 4th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.127, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Researches in Earth Sciences is published by Shahid Beheshti University. Its print ISSN is 2008-8299 and its online ISSN is 2588-5898.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Researches in Earth Sciences has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #172 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
Researches in Earth Sciences published 71 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 72. 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 69 research articles (2021), authors are most often from Iran (100%). 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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