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Journal of the Japan Petroleum Institute is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SCIE. Published by Japan Petroleum Institute.
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ISSN 1346-8804Verify ISSN ↗1349-273XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japan Petroleum Institute
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 259 / 347 | 25th | Q3 |
| Fuel Technology | 113 / 138 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of the Japan Petroleum Institute is Q3 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 259 of 347) and Q4 in Fuel Technology (rank 113 of 138), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Japan Petroleum Institute 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.184, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 33.
Journal of the Japan Petroleum Institute is published by Japan Petroleum Institute. Its print ISSN is 1346-8804 and its online ISSN is 1349-273X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Japan Petroleum Institute has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #182 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
Journal of the Japan Petroleum Institute published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 46. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (95%), Vietnam (2%) and Mexico (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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