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Aims and scope

International Geology Review is dedicated to publishing original and timely research papers as well as in-depth scholarly reviews dealing with the petrotectonic framework of the earth and the distribution of mineral and energy resources within that framework. Particularly emphasised are petroleum geology, economic geology, tectonics, geochemistry and petrology. Geographic coverage is global and work on any part of the world is considered. The journal has been published since 1959.

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Journal metrics

Usage

131K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

2.1 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.7 (2023) 5 year IF
5.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.073 (2023) SNIP
0.927 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

3 days avg. from submission to first decision
4 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
10 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
37% acceptance rate

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Journal metrics in brief

Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).

Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.

Citation Metrics

Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.

Speed/acceptance

From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.

For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.

*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus

Editorial board

Editor

Professor Robert Stern
Department of Geosciences
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
USA
Email: [email protected]

Associate Editors

Mihai Ducea
University of Arizona
Department of Geosciences
1040 E Fourth Street, Room 208
Tucson, AZ
USA
Email: [email protected]

Matthew Leybourne
Professor, Analytical Geochemistry
Queen's Facility for Isotope Research (QFIR)
Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
36 Union Street, Queen's University
Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6
Email: [email protected]

Editorial Board

Mohamed G. Abdelsalam
Boone Pickens Chair of Geophysics
School of Geology
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
USA
Email: [email protected]

Richard Arculus
Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University
Canberra 0200
Australia
Email: [email protected]

Ricardo Astini
Laboratorio de Análisis de Cuencas-CICTERRA
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Avenida Velez Sarsfield 1611, Of. 7, 2° Piso
X5016GCA Córdoba
Argentina
Email: [email protected]

Asish Basu
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019
USA
Email: [email protected]

Clark Burchfiel
Schlumberger Professor of Geology
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Email: [email protected]

Cathy Busby
Department of Earth Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
USA
Email: [email protected]

Peter Clift
Charles T. McCord Professor
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
USA
Email: [email protected]

Yildirim Dilek
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
USA
Email: [email protected]

Weiwei Ding
Director Deputy of Key Laboratory Submarine Geoscience
The Second Institute of Oceanography
Ministry of Natural Resources, China
36 Baochu Road( North), Hangzhou, 310012
China
Email: [email protected]

Grenville Draper
Department of Earth and Environment
Florida International University
SW 8th Street
Miami, FL 33199
USA
Email: [email protected]

W. Gary Ernst
Benjamin M. Page Professor Emeritus
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
USA
Email: [email protected]

Patricia Fryer
Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics & Planetology
University of Hawai'i
1680 East-West Rd. POST 514B
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
Email: [email protected]

Antonio García-Casco
Departament of Mineralogy and Petrology
Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences (UGR-CSIC)
Faculty of Sciences
University of Granada
Avd Fuentenueva s/n
18071 Granada
Spain
Email: [email protected]

Alexei V. Ivanov
Institute of the Earth’s Crust
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
128 Lermontov Street
Irkutsk 664033
Russia
Email: [email protected]

Jean-Paul Liégeois
Head of Section
Isotope Geology
Royal Museum for Central Africa
B-3080 Tervuren
Belgium
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Sobhi Nasir
Department of Earth Sciences
Sultan Qaboos University
123 Al Khod
Oman
Email: [email protected]

Yasuhiko Ohara
Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan
2-5-18 Aomi, Koto-ku
Tokyo 135-0064
Japan
Email: [email protected]

Victoria Pease
Department of Geological Sciences
PetroTectonics Facility
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Email: [email protected]

David W Scholl
Emeritus Geologist
USGS Pacific Coastal & Marine Science Center
345 Middlefield Road MS 999
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA
Email: [email protected]

Hadi Shafaii Moghadam
School of Earth Sciences
Department of Geology
Faculty of Science
University of Mohaghegh Ardabili
Ardabil.
Email: [email protected]

Tatsuki Tsujimori
Center for Northeast Asian Studies
Tohoku University
41 Kawauchi, Aoba-ku
Sendai 980-8576
Japan
Email: [email protected]

Scott A. Whattam
Department of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar
Odisha 751013
India
Email: [email protected]

Donna L. Whitney
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Head, Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences
Chair, Department of Earth Sciences
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA
Email: [email protected]

Yigang Xu
State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
510640 Wushan, Guangzhou
China
Email: [email protected]

Abstracting and indexing

EBSCOhost
- Academic Search Complete, 1/1/2009-
- Current Abstracts, 1/1/2009-
- Energy & Power Source, 1/1/2009-
- GeoRef
- TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 1/1/2009-
Elsevier BV
- GEOBASE
- Scopus, 1991-ongoing,1984-1985, 1978
International Atomic Energy Agency
- INIS Atomindex (Online) (International Nuclear Information System)
National Library of Medicine
- PubMed
OCLC
- ArticleFirst, vol.33, no.2, 1991-vol.53, no.14, 2011
- Electronic Collections Online, vol.40, no.1, 1998-vol.53, no.14, 2011
Ovid
- GeoRef
ProQuest
- GeoRef
- ProQuest Natural Science Journals, 01/01/2011-
- ProQuest SciTech Journals, 01/01/2011-
Thomson Reuters
- Arts and Humanities Search, vol.42, no.7, 2000-vol.52, no.7/8, 2010
- Current Contents
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Web of Science
University of Tulsa * Information Services Division
- Petroleum Abstracts (Online)

2019 CiteScore:5.1

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