The purpose of this not-for-profit journal is to help share knowledge and give more "traditional" recognition to science communication in the geosciences. Science communication is used as an umbrella term by GC to cover all aspects of outreach, public engagement, widening participation, knowledge exchange, and any other initiatives within the scope of the journal. It can be thought of as any initiative which seeks to communicate an aspect of geoscience to a wider audience than the experts within that particular field.
Geoscience Communication aims to raise awareness of the importance and value of science communication from a scientist's point of view as part of a broader vision of "geoscience for society". A lot of science communication work is usually performed on a voluntary basis and with little formal academic reward or recognition, so giving researchers, educators, and communicators the opportunity to publish their experiences and work in this area is necessary to address this problem.
The main subject areas are the following: geoscience education, geoscience engagement, geoscience policy, history and philosophy of geosciences, and open geoscience. Whilst all of these subject areas fall within the remit of science communication, GC distinguishes geoscience education as research that is pedagogical in nature, and which takes place in either a formal or informal environment, whereas geoscience engagement is defined as any research which considers engaging the general public. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles
The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.
Category
Year
Quartile
Communication
2022
Q2
Communication
2023
Q2
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
2022
Q2
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
2023
Q2
SJR
The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from
It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.
Year
SJR
2022
0.382
2023
0.455
Total Documents
Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.
Year
Documents
2018
4
2019
14
2020
32
2021
34
2022
29
2023
11
Citations per document
This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.
Cites per document
Year
Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2018
0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2019
0.750
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2020
0.722
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2021
1.480
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2022
1.726
Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2023
1.569
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2018
0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2019
0.750
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2020
0.722
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2021
1.480
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2022
1.675
Cites / Doc. (3 years)
2023
1.621
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2018
0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2019
0.750
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2020
0.722
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2021
1.304
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2022
1.818
Cites / Doc. (2 years)
2023
1.540
Total Cites Self-Cites
Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.
Cites
Year
Value
Self Cites
2018
0
Self Cites
2019
1
Self Cites
2020
2
Self Cites
2021
31
Self Cites
2022
28
Self Cites
2023
24
Total Cites
2018
0
Total Cites
2019
3
Total Cites
2020
13
Total Cites
2021
74
Total Cites
2022
134
Total Cites
2023
154
External Cites per Doc Cites per Doc
Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.
Cites
Year
Value
External Cites per document
2018
0
External Cites per document
2019
0.500
External Cites per document
2020
0.611
External Cites per document
2021
0.860
External Cites per document
2022
1.325
External Cites per document
2023
1.368
Cites per document
2018
0.000
Cites per document
2019
0.750
Cites per document
2020
0.722
Cites per document
2021
1.480
Cites per document
2022
1.675
Cites per document
2023
1.621
% International Collaboration
International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.
Year
International Collaboration
2018
50.00
2019
35.71
2020
34.38
2021
26.47
2022
34.48
2023
36.36
Citable documents Non-citable documents
Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.
Documents
Year
Value
Non-citable documents
2018
0
Non-citable documents
2019
0
Non-citable documents
2020
0
Non-citable documents
2021
2
Non-citable documents
2022
2
Non-citable documents
2023
2
Citable documents
2018
0
Citable documents
2019
4
Citable documents
2020
18
Citable documents
2021
48
Citable documents
2022
78
Citable documents
2023
93
Cited documents Uncited documents
Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.
Documents
Year
Value
Uncited documents
2018
0
Uncited documents
2019
1
Uncited documents
2020
9
Uncited documents
2021
14
Uncited documents
2022
28
Uncited documents
2023
34
Cited documents
2018
0
Cited documents
2019
3
Cited documents
2020
9
Cited documents
2021
36
Cited documents
2022
52
Cited documents
2023
61
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