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Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2468-256XVerify ISSN ↗2543-151XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 64 / 183 | 65th | Q2 |
| Geology | 119 / 333 | 64th | Q2 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 69 / 164 | 58th | Q2 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 155 / 347 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience is Q2 in Geophysics (rank 64 of 183), Q2 in Geology (rank 119 of 333) and Q2 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 69 of 164), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.422, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2468-256X and its online ISSN is 2543-151X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 2.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 39. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (87.8%), Indonesia (1.3%) and Bangladesh (1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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