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Journal of Petroleum Geology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0141-6421Verify ISSN ↗1747-5457Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 82 / 333 | 75th | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 51 / 194 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 125 / 347 | 64th | Q2 |
| Fuel Technology | 60 / 138 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Journal of Petroleum Geology is Q1 in Geology (rank 82 of 333), Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 51 of 194) and Q2 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 125 of 347), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Petroleum Geology 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.628, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 60.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
Journal of Petroleum Geology is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0141-6421 and its online ISSN is 1747-5457.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Petroleum Geology has an h-index of 78 and a 2-year mean of 0.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #149 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Journal of Petroleum Geology published 44 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (44.4%), Egypt (7.5%) and India (6.3%).
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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