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Earth's Future

John Wiley & Sons Inc. · United States · Est. 2007

ISSN2328-4277eISSN2328-4277

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

3.116

H-Indexi

127

SNIPi

1.984

Total Worksi

2,292

Total Citationsi

82,604

2yr Mean Citednessi

6.29

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Environmental Sciences; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous); Environmental Science (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2007

FrequencyTwelve Issues Per Year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,292

Publisher OrgAmerican Geophysical Union

OA Since2012

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewPeer review

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

PorticoCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2328-4277 / 2328-4277

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Peer review

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

Portico, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

124

8.3k

2019

158

11k

2020

187

9.2k

2021

290

12k

2022

258

6.4k

2023

361

5.4k

2024

362

2025

283

143

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Q1

Environmental Science (miscellaneous)Q1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Environmental SciencesGeosciences, MultidisciplinaryMeteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

Scopus Categories

Environmental Science (miscellaneous)Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Climate variability and modelsFlood Risk Assessment and ManagementHydrology and Watershed Management StudiesAtmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamicsHydrology and Drought AnalysisMeteorological Phenomena and SimulationsTropical and Extratropical Cyclones ResearchClimate change impacts on agriculturePlant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsCryospheric studies and observations

Frequently asked questions about Earth's Future

Is Earth's Future a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Earth's Future: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Earth's Future?

Earth's Future is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 6.29.

Is Earth's Future indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Earth's Future is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Earth's Future?