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Special Paper of the Geological Society of America is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4). Published by Geological Society of America.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0072-1077Verify ISSN ↗2331-219XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 118 / 333 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1962–present (also 1957–1958, 1955, 1934–1945), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Special Paper of the Geological Society of America is Q2 in Geology (rank 118 of 333), by CiteScore 2025.
Special Paper of the Geological Society of America 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 3.4, quartile Q2, 64th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.313, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 122.
Special Paper of the Geological Society of America is published by Geological Society of America. Its print ISSN is 0072-1077 and its online ISSN is 2331-219X.
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.
Special Paper of the Geological Society of America has an h-index of 98 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #252 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Special Paper of the Geological Society of America published 16 papers in 2017; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 178. 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.
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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