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Volcanica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Volcanica.
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ISSN 2610-3540Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Volcanica
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 51 / 183 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Geology | 94 / 333 | 71st | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 59 / 194 | 69th | Q2 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 56 / 164 | 66th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Volcanica is Q2 in Geophysics (rank 51 of 183), Q2 in Geology (rank 94 of 333) and Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 59 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Volcanica 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.031, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
Volcanica is published by Volcanica. Its ISSN is 2610-3540.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Volcanica has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 2.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Volcanica published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 45. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (25.7%), United Kingdom (15.5%) and Italy (9.1%).
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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