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Surveys in Geophysics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 0169-3298Verify ISSN ↗1573-0956Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$4,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 2 / 183 | 99th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 4 / 164 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.7.
Surveys in Geophysics is Q1 in Geophysics (rank 2 of 183) and Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 4 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Surveys in Geophysics 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 14.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.677, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 110.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,290 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.
Surveys in Geophysics is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 0169-3298 and its online ISSN is 1573-0956.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Surveys in Geophysics has an h-index of 132 and a 2-year mean of 5.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Surveys in Geophysics published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 73. 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 China (19%), United States (13.9%) and Germany (7.4%).
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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