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Soil Security is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.8), DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2667-0062Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 11 / 184 | 94th | Q1 |
| Soil Science | 22 / 167 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.8.
Soil Security is Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 11 of 184) and Q1 in Soil Science (rank 22 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Soil Security 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 8.8, quartile Q1, 94th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.266, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,390 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.
Soil Security is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2667-0062.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Soil Security has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 5.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Soil Security published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 49. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Australia (16.7%), United States (16.5%) and India (5.3%).
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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