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International Bulk Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0). Published by LLP Ltd.
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ISSN 0260-1087Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: LLP Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Engineering | 121 / 123 | 1st | Q4 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 389 / 390 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2025 (also 1983–2017), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
International Bulk Journal is Q4 in Ocean Engineering (rank 121 of 123) and Q4 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 389 of 390), by CiteScore 2025.
International Bulk Journal 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, quartile Q4, 1st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.100, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 1.
International Bulk Journal is published by LLP Ltd. Its ISSN is 0260-1087.
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.
International Bulk Journal has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #89 of 99 Scopus journals in Ocean Engineering.
International Bulk Journal published 4 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2008 with 8. 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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