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Improved Oil and Gas Recovery is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), DOAJ. Published by Smart Science and Technology LLC.
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ISSN 2688-8246Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Smart Science and Technology LLC
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 289 / 347 | 16th | Q4 |
| Fuel Technology | 126 / 138 | 9th | Q4 |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | 99 / 106 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Improved Oil and Gas Recovery is Q4 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 289 of 347), Q4 in Fuel Technology (rank 126 of 138) and Q4 in Energy (miscellaneous) (rank 99 of 106), by CiteScore 2025.
Improved Oil and Gas Recovery 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 16th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.144, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Improved Oil and Gas Recovery is published by Smart Science and Technology LLC. Its ISSN is 2688-8246.
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.
Improved Oil and Gas Recovery has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #213 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
Improved Oil and Gas Recovery published 64 papers in 2025. 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 79 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Nigeria (41.1%), China (12.4%) and India (10.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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