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Energy Exploration and Exploitation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0144-5987Verify ISSN ↗2048-4054Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 19 / 85 | 78th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 121 / 347 | 65th | Q2 |
| Fuel Technology | 56 / 138 | 59th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 165 / 345 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1987–1988, 1983–1985), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Energy Exploration and Exploitation is Q1 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 19 of 85), Q2 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 121 of 347) and Q2 in Fuel Technology (rank 56 of 138), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Energy Exploration and Exploitation 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.481, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,000 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Energy Exploration and Exploitation is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0144-5987 and its online ISSN is 2048-4054.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Energy Exploration and Exploitation has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 4.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 77 Scopus journals in Nuclear Energy and Engineering.
Energy Exploration and Exploitation published 135 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 145. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (24.4%), India (13.4%) and Jordan (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (2.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 4 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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