USGS professional paper

Our screening does not flag USGS professional paper. 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.

Per our venue index, USGS professional paper appears in: Scopus. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

Papers in USGS professional paper are cited about 3.7 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q4, with an h-index of 163. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Our index records its access status as "gold". 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.