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USGS Scientific Investigations Report is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8). Published by US Geological Survey.
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ISSN 2328-031XVerify ISSN ↗2328-0328Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: US Geological Survey
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 158 / 194 | 18th | Q4 |
| Geology | 281 / 333 | 15th | 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 2021–present (also 2019, 2011), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
USGS Scientific Investigations Report is Q4 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 158 of 194) and Q4 in Geology (rank 281 of 333), by CiteScore 2025.
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 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 0.8, quartile Q4, 18th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.219, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
USGS Scientific Investigations Report is published by US Geological Survey. Its print ISSN is 2328-031X and its online ISSN is 2328-0328.
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.
USGS Scientific Investigations Report has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 0.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
USGS Scientific Investigations Report published 138 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 186. 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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