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China Petroleum Exploration is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1). Published by Petroleum Industry Press.
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ISSN 1672-7703Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Petroleum Industry Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 37 / 333 | 89th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 20 / 164 | 88th | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 50 / 244 | 79th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 82 / 347 | 76th | Q1 |
| Fuel Technology | 41 / 138 | 70th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
China Petroleum Exploration is Q1 in Geology (rank 37 of 333), Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 20 of 164) and Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 50 of 244), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
China Petroleum Exploration is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1, 89th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.383, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
China Petroleum Exploration is published by Petroleum Industry Press. Its ISSN is 1672-7703.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
China Petroleum Exploration has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #252 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
China Petroleum Exploration published 26 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 89. 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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