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Russian Geology and Geophysics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Publishing House of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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ISSN 1068-7971Verify ISSN ↗1878-030XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Publishing House of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 94 / 184 | 49th | Q3 |
| Geophysics | 96 / 183 | 47th | Q3 |
| Geology | 182 / 333 | 45th | Q3 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 109 / 194 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Russian Geology and Geophysics is Q3 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 94 of 184), Q3 in Geophysics (rank 96 of 183) and Q3 in Geology (rank 182 of 333), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Russian Geology and Geophysics 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.463, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 59.
Russian Geology and Geophysics is published by Publishing House of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Its print ISSN is 1068-7971 and its online ISSN is 1878-030X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Russian Geology and Geophysics has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 0.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #95 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Russian Geology and Geophysics published 114 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 136. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (93.7%), China (1.6%) and Armenia (1.1%). 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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