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Gornyi Zhurnal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4). Published by Izdatel'stvo Ruda i Metally.
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ISSN 0017-2278Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Izdatel'stvo Ruda i Metally
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 175 / 244 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 2001–2005, 1973–1977, 1971), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Gornyi Zhurnal is Q3 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 175 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Gornyi Zhurnal 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 1.4, quartile Q3, 28th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.316, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Gornyi Zhurnal is published by Izdatel'stvo Ruda i Metally. Its ISSN is 0017-2278.
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.
Gornyi Zhurnal has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #164 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
Gornyi Zhurnal published 166 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 225. 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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