Scientific investigations report
ISSN 2328-031x · United States Geological Survey · United States · active 2004–2026
Metrics
- Best Scimago quartile (2025)
- Q3
- Cites per paper (2y)
- 0.9
- SJR
- 0.219
- h-index
- 68
“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.
Data as of 8 November 2026 (venue index build).
Scimago Journal Rank 2025
In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Scientific investigations report is Q3 in 1 of its 2 subject categories and Q4 in the other 1. Its best category quartile is Q3.
| Subject category | Quartile | Rank in category |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | Q3 | #272 of 377 |
| Geology | Q4 | #256 of 334 |
- Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
- 0.48
- Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
- 129
OpenAlex counts about 0.9 citations per paper over two years; Scopus, through Scimago, counts 0.48 per document. The two databases index different journals, documents and citations, so the figures differ. Neither is a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor.
The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).
Scientific investigations report is Q3 in 1 of its 2 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous): Q3, #272 of 377), with SJR 0.219 (Scimago) and an h-index of 68 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus.
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Indexing & access
- Indexed in
- Scopus
- Access status:
- hybrid. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.
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Frequently asked
Is Scientific investigations report a predatory journal?
Our screening does not flag Scientific investigations report. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, which is a positive signal.
Is Scientific investigations report indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, Scientific investigations report appears in: Scopus. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.
What is the impact factor of Scientific investigations report?
Papers in Scientific investigations report are cited about 0.9 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 68. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.
What Scimago quartile is Scientific investigations report (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?
In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Scientific investigations report is Q3 in 1 of its 2 subject categories and Q4 in the other 1. By category: Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous): Q3, #272 of 377; Geology: Q4, #256 of 334. Its best category quartile is Q3. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Scientific investigations report is cited about 0.9 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 68.
What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Scientific investigations report?
The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Scientific investigations report. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.
Is Scientific investigations report open access?
Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.
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