Journal profile · Earth and Planetary Sciences-Geophysics
Journal of Applied Volcanology
ISSN 2191-5040 · Springer Nature · United Kingdom
Journal of Applied Volcanology: fully open access; APC about USD 2,090; median 192 days to acceptance (24 articles, last 24 months); 9 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Applied Volcanology is published by Springer Nature. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Disaster Management and Resilience, Geological and Geophysical Studies and Public Relations and Crisis Communication, together about 48.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Applied Volcanology is an international journal dedicated to applied research on volcanism and its wide‑ranging interactions with society. Volcanic risks serve as entry points into much larger questions about how societies understand, prepare for, and live with extreme environmental hazards. Understanding and managing volcanic risk therefore leads to insights of broader significance into the health, social, economic, cultural, environmental, and institutional dimensions of vulnerability and resilience. In this context, caring about volcanology means caring about public safety, livelihoods, ecosystems, and long‑term societal wellbeing. The journal provides a platform for research that advances these goals by limiting the impacts of volcanic activity on communities, infrastructure, environments, and economies. Recognising that real‑world volcanic risk is complex, interconnected, and often embedded within broader multi‑hazard environments, the journal welcomes mono‑, multi‑, inter‑ and transdisciplinary research spanning the natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and policy domains. This includes studies focused directly on volcanic processes and hazards, as well as research addressing related or cascading threats such as volcanic tsunamis, landslides, debris avalanches, or volcanic health impacts, compound hazard scenarios and lessons from other hazard contexts. The journal is structured around a set of broad, interconnected areas of application that reflect how volcanism intersects with health, societal systems, and environmental risk. These areas are intended as thematic entry points rather than strict disciplinary boundaries and include: Environment, climate, ecosystem and agriculture impacts, including hazard and risk models and footprints, effects on landscapes, biodiversity, soils, water, climate processes, crops, livestock, fisheries, food systems, and rural livelihoods. Environmental and public health, encompassing physical health, psychological wellbeing, social stress, occupational health, and health-system impacts related to volcanic hazards Critical infrastructure and the built environment, including transport, aviation, and supply chains, engineering challenges, infrastructure and lifeline vulnerability, exposure, and resilience Technology, data science, and innovation, including monitoring systems, modelling, early warning, decision support, data‑driven risk reduction, and management and understa
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Earth and Planetary Sciences-Geophysics
Editor-in-chief Emma E. Hudson-DoylePublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named New Zealand 4, United Kingdom 3, United States 1, Spain 1, Singapore 1 (12 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Disaster Management and ResilienceSocial Sciences26.8%
- Geological and Geophysical StudiesEarth and Planetary Sciences15%
- Public Relations and Crisis CommunicationSocial Sciences6.6%
- Risk Perception and ManagementSocial Sciences5.1%
- Earthquake and Disaster Impact StudiesSocial Sciences5.1%
- Risk and Safety AnalysisDecision Sciences4.7%
- earthquake and tectonic studiesEarth and Planetary Sciences3.8%
- Geological Modeling and AnalysisEarth and Planetary Sciences3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | Q1 | 34/183 | 81st |
| Safety Research | Q1 | 24/108 | 78th |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | Q1 | 40/164 | 75th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CASGeoRefPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Astrophysics Data System, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.55LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.84LetPub ·
- h-index
- 42OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 120OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.63OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 244,200Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 183 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 | 16 | 458 |
| 2025 | 9 | 9 | 548 |
| 2024 | 10 | 10 | 585 |
| 2023 | 12 | 12 | 528 |
| 2022 | 15 | 15 | 807 |
| 2021 | 10 | 10 | 603 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
192 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 154 days – 289 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 41 days (24 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 230 days
- Sample
- 24 articles with submission and acceptance dates (26 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 13 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 13 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 1,890 / USD 2,090 / GBP 1,490 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,990 / EUR 1,790 / GBP 1,390 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 1,340 / USD 1,890 / EUR 1,690 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 1,490 / USD 209 / USD 2,090 / EUR 1,890 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Open calls for papers1, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- Templates
- LaTeX
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted8
- brief reportFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Debate Correspondence Methodology Review Brief Report Hazard Map DatabaseLength not stated
- correspondenceFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Debate Correspondence Methodology Review Brief Report Hazard Map DatabaseLength not stated
- databaseFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Debate Correspondence Methodology Review Brief Report Hazard Map DatabaseLength not stated
- debateFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Debate Correspondence Methodology Review Brief Report Hazard Map DatabaseLength not stated
- hazard mapFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Debate Correspondence Methodology Review Brief Report Hazard Map DatabaseLength not stated
- methodologyFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Debate Correspondence Methodology Review Brief Report Hazard Map DatabaseLength not stated
- researchFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Debate Correspondence Methodology Review Brief Report Hazard Map DatabaseLength not stated
- reviewFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Debate Correspondence Methodology Review Brief Report Hazard Map DatabaseLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Data availability Formatting the 'Availability of data and materials' section of your manuscript
Data sharing strongly encouraged or required; deposit in public repositories where appropriate. Model summary
The following format for the 'Availability of data and materials section of your manuscript should be used:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licensing and copyright
Open access under CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY licence. Model summary
Creative Commons licences Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles. Journal of Applied Volcanology articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attr…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work: Cited more 1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects Downloaded more 4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles Greater impact 2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions Open acces…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review is the process used to evaluate the quality of a manuscript before publication. Independent researchers in the relevant field assess submitted manuscripts to check their validity and robustness. Their feedback guides editors in making publication decisions. Typically, two or more experts evaluate each manuscript based on three main criteria: scientific robustness: is the research metho…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2191-5040
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Applied Volcanology
How long does peer review take at Journal of Applied Volcanology?
Based on the dates recorded on 24 articles published between November 2024 and November 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 192 days (interquartile range 154–289 days); authors report an average review time of about 13 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of Applied Volcanology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; Templates: LaTeX; Suggested reviewers: Optional. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Applied Volcanology based?
Of the 12 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are New Zealand (4), United Kingdom (3) and United States (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Applied Volcanology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Applied Volcanology is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists CAS and GeoRef; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Applied Volcanology open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Applied Volcanology is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,090.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .