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Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS ESCI. Published by Publishing House of Natural Science and Technology, VAST.
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ISSN 0866-7187Verify ISSN ↗2615-9783Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Publishing House of Natural Science and Technology, VAST
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 45 / 201 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 45 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Vietnam Journal of 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.404, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences is published by Publishing House of Natural Science and Technology, VAST. Its print ISSN is 0866-7187 and its online ISSN is 2615-9783.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 186 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all).
Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 64. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Vietnam (61.3%), Indonesia (7.5%) and Japan (5.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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