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Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by St. Petersburg University Press.
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ISSN 2541-9668Verify ISSN ↗2587-585XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: St. Petersburg University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 640 / 876 | 26th | Q3 |
| Geology | 258 / 333 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 159 / 201 | 21st | Q4 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 244 / 307 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 640 of 876), Q4 in Geology (rank 258 of 333) and Q4 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 159 of 201), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 26th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.189, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences is published by St. Petersburg University Press. Its print ISSN is 2541-9668 and its online ISSN is 2587-585X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #635 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 41. 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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