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Soil Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. Published by CSIRO Publishing.
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ISSN 1838-675XVerify ISSN ↗1838-6768Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 58 / 184 | 68th | Q2 |
| Soil Science | 66 / 167 | 60th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 131 / 307 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Soil Research is Q2 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 58 of 184), Q2 in Soil Science (rank 66 of 167) and Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 131 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Soil Research 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.550, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 100.
Soil Research is published by CSIRO Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1838-675X and its online ISSN is 1838-6768.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Soil Research has an h-index of 146 and a 2-year mean of 1.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Soil Research published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 93. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (26%), Australia (25.7%) and Brazil (8.6%).
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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