Journal History
| 2018 | The inaugural issue was released. Quaternary was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2019 | Quaternary was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). |
| 2020 | Quaternary was indexed in Scopus - Elsevier. Quaternary announced the first edition of the Young Investigator award. |
| 2022 | Quaternary received its first CiteScore (2021) of 4.3, ranked 42/155 (Q2) in “Earth-Surface Processes”, 37/128 (Q2) in “Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)”. Quaternary announced the first edition of the Best Paper award. |
| 2023 | Quaternary received its first Impact Factor (2.3). |
| 2024 | Quaternary received its 2023 Impact Factor (2.3), ranked 118/253 (Q2) in “Geosciences, Multidisciplinary”. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2017–2020 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Valentí Rull |
| 2020–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jef Vandenberghe |
