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Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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ISSN 1674-7755Verify ISSN ↗2589-0417Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Academy of Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 7 / 244 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.3.
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering is Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 7 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 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 14.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.542, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 99.
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 Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering is published by Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its print ISSN is 1674-7755 and its online ISSN is 2589-0417.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering has an h-index of 112 and a 2-year mean of 8.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering published 516 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (73.7%), Australia (4.8%) and Hong Kong SAR China (3.1%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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