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Acta Petrologica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1000-0569Verify ISSN ↗2095-8927Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 52 / 164 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present (also 1980–1983), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Acta Petrologica Sinica is Q2 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 52 of 164), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Petrologica Sinica 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.833, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 113.
Acta Petrologica Sinica is published by Science Press. Its print ISSN is 1000-0569 and its online ISSN is 2095-8927.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Petrologica Sinica has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 0.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 156 Scopus journals in Geochemistry and Petrology.
Acta Petrologica Sinica published 234 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 246. 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.
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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