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Springer Polar Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2510-0475Verify ISSN ↗2510-0483Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 146 / 194 | 25th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 247 / 307 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2017–2024), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Springer Polar Sciences is Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 146 of 194) and Q4 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 247 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Springer Polar Sciences 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 1, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Springer Polar Sciences is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2510-0475 and its online ISSN is 2510-0483.
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.
Springer Polar Sciences has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #148 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Springer Polar Sciences published 1 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 97. 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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