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Drilling Fluid and Completion Fluid is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), DOAJ. Published by North China Petroleum Administration Drilling Technology Research Institute.
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ISSN 1001-5620Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: North China Petroleum Administration Drilling Technology Research Institute
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 197 / 347 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Drilling Fluid and Completion Fluid is Q3 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 197 of 347), by CiteScore 2025.
Drilling Fluid and Completion Fluid 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 2.1, quartile Q3, 43rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.434, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
Drilling Fluid and Completion Fluid is published by North China Petroleum Administration Drilling Technology Research Institute. Its ISSN is 1001-5620.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Drilling Fluid and Completion Fluid has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #222 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
Drilling Fluid and Completion Fluid published 6 papers in 2015; its busiest recent year was 2007 with 154. 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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