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AAPG Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), WoS SCIE. Published by American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
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ISSN 0149-1423Verify ISSN ↗1558-9153Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 43 / 333 | 87th | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 27 / 194 | 86th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 26 / 164 | 84th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 92 / 347 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Fuel Technology | 44 / 138 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
AAPG Bulletin is Q1 in Geology (rank 43 of 333), Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 27 of 194) and Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 26 of 164), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
AAPG Bulletin is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.877, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 175.
AAPG Bulletin is published by American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Its print ISSN is 0149-1423 and its online ISSN is 1558-9153.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
AAPG Bulletin has an h-index of 241 and a 2-year mean of 3.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
AAPG Bulletin published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 109. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 86 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (34%), United States (22.1%) and Canada (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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