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Solid Earth Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry.
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ISSN 2451-912XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 99 / 333 | 70th | Q2 |
| Geophysics | 55 / 183 | 70th | Q2 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 57 / 184 | 69th | Q2 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 60 / 164 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 94 / 244 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Solid Earth Sciences is Q2 in Geology (rank 99 of 333), Q2 in Geophysics (rank 55 of 183) and Q2 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 57 of 184), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Solid Earth Sciences 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.620, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,410 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.
Solid Earth Sciences is published by Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry. Its ISSN is 2451-912X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Solid Earth Sciences has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 1.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Solid Earth Sciences published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 38. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (49.2%), Nigeria (7.9%) and Cameroon (5.5%).
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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