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U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by US Geological Survey.
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ISSN 2327-6916Verify ISSN ↗2327-6932Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: US Geological Survey
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 259 / 279 | 7th | Q4 |
| Geology | 319 / 333 | 4th | Q4 |
| Ecology | 475 / 491 | 3rd | 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 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet is Q4 in Water Science and Technology (rank 259 of 279), Q4 in Geology (rank 319 of 333) and Q4 in Ecology (rank 475 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 7th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.167, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 9.
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet is published by US Geological Survey. Its print ISSN is 2327-6916 and its online ISSN is 2327-6932.
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.
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #204 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 87. 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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