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US Geological Survey Professional Paper is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4). Published by US Geological Survey.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1044-9612Verify ISSN ↗2330-7102Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: US Geological Survey
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 117 / 333 | 65th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 141 / 279 | 49th | Q3 |
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 (also 1978–2012, 1968–1971, 1966, 1964), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
US Geological Survey Professional Paper is Q2 in Geology (rank 117 of 333) and Q3 in Water Science and Technology (rank 141 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
US Geological Survey Professional Paper 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, 65th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.190, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 40.
US Geological Survey Professional Paper is published by US Geological Survey. Its print ISSN is 1044-9612 and its online ISSN is 2330-7102.
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.
US Geological Survey Professional Paper has an h-index of 163 and a 2-year mean of 3.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
US Geological Survey Professional Paper published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 42. 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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