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”.
2026	Quaternary adopted a bimonthly publication schedule.