Geoscience Canada

Aims & Scope

Established in 1974, Geoscience Canada is the main technical publication of the Geological Association of Canada (GAC).

We are a quarterly journal that emphasizes diversity of material, and also the presentation of informative technical articles that can be understood not only by specialist research workers, but by non-specialists in other branches of the Earth Sciences.

We aim to be a journal that you want to read, and which will leave you better informed, rather than more confused.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.425

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	38

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	1.80

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Earth and Planetary Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Tectonic Setting and Evolution of the Grenville Orogen: An Assessment of Progress Over the Last 40 Years

  Citation: 65

  Authors: Toby

• Tectonic Evolution of the Adirondack Mountains and Grenville Orogen Inliers within the USA

  Citation: 52

  Authors: James M., Bruce W., Marion E.

• Evidence of Late Ediacaran Hyperextension of the Laurentian Iapetan Margin in the Birchy Complex, Baie Verte Peninsula, Northwest Newfoundland: Implications for the Opening of Iapetus, Formation of Peri-Laurentian Microcontinents and Taconic – Grampian Orogenesis

  Citation: 47

  Authors: Cees R., Dave M., Alexandre, Vicki, James, Tom, Sébastien, Monica P., Paul J.

• Arc and Slab-Failure Magmatism in Cordilleran Batholiths II – The Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges Batholith of Southern and Baja California

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Robert S., Joseph B.

• The Origin of Laurentia: Rae Craton as the Backstop for Proto-Laurentian Amalgamation by Slab Suction

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Paul F.

• A Mechanism for Tectonic Inheritance at Transform Faults of the Iapetan Margin of Laurentia

  Citation: 41

  Authors: William A.

• Time-Transgressive Salinic and Acadian Orogenesis, Magmatism and Old Red Sandstone Sedimentation in Newfoundland

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Cees R., Alexandre, Vicki J., Neil

• Igneous Rock Associations 19. Greenstone Belts and Granite−Greenstone Terranes: Constraints on the Nature of the Archean World

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Phillips C.

• The Ocean – Continent Transition Zones Along the Appalachian – Caledonian Margin of Laurentia: Examples of Large-Scale Hyperextension During the Opening of the Iapetus Ocean

  Citation: 35

  Authors: David M., Cees R.

• Accretion, Soft and Hard Collision: Similarities, Differences and an Application from the Newfoundland Appalachian Orogen

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Cees, Alexandre

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