Journal profile · Earth and Planetary Sciences-Oceanography
Polarforschung
ISSN 0032-2490 · eISSN 2190-1090 · Copernicus Publications · Germany
Polarforschung: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 6 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Polarforschung is published by Copernicus Publications. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Polar Research and Ecology, Travel Writing and Literature and History of Science and Natural History, together about 33.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Atmospheric Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The journal Polarforschung (PolF) is published by the German Society for Polar Research (DGP) and the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). The multidisciplinary journal is devoted to contributions from all polar research disciplines, comprising scientific reviews, documentation of outreach and stakeholder activities, and news from the polar community. According to its mission statement, the DGP represents polar and high mountain research. Since these areas are particularly sensitive to environmental changes, they are extremely relevant to life on earth. The DGP perceives the following as its responsibilities: bringing together scientists from different disciplines and thus promoting exchange and research anchoring the importance and results of polar research more firmly in society and politics active involvement of young scientists intensification of the social dialogue about the future of the polar and high mountain regions.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Earth and Planetary Sciences-Oceanography
Editor-in-chief Bernhard Diekmann Alfred-Wegener-InstitutPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Polar Research and EcologyEnvironmental Science16.3%
- Travel Writing and LiteratureArts and Humanities9.7%
- History of Science and Natural HistoryArts and Humanities7.8%
- Cryospheric studies and observationsEarth and Planetary Sciences7.4%
- Biographical and Historical AnalysisArts and Humanities7.4%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology ResearchEarth and Planetary Sciences6.2%
- History of Science and MedicineArts and Humanities5.8%
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamicsEarth and Planetary Sciences5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | Q4 | 147/154 | 4th |
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
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
- 0.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 0.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.12LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.12Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.04LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.04Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 6OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.1OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 115 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 | 10 | 8 |
| 2025 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2023 | 13 | 13 | 11 |
| 2022 | 14 | 14 | 8 |
| 2021 | 24 | 24 | 5 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Unspecified 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright
- License & copyright
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License Model summary
All site content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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
- Copernicus Publications
- Country or region
- Germany
- Language
- German, English
- ISSN
- 0032-2490
- Electronic ISSN
- 2190-1090
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Polarforschung
How long does peer review take at Polarforschung?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 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.
Which databases index Polarforschung?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Polarforschung is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Polarforschung open access, and what is the APC?
Polarforschung is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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: .