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Marine and Petroleum Geology is not currently indexed in Scopus. Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0264-8172Verify ISSN ↗1873-4073Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,440 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratigraphy | 2 / 56 | 97th | Q1 |
| Geophysics | 11 / 183 | 94th | Q1 |
| Oceanography | 12 / 154 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Geology | 29 / 333 | 91st | Q1 |
| Economic Geology | 10 / 52 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (1984–present).
Marine and Petroleum Geology 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 8, quartile Q1, 97th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.067, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 175.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,440 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.
Marine and Petroleum Geology is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0264-8172 and its online ISSN is 1873-4073.
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.
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.
Marine and Petroleum Geology has an h-index of 192 and a 2-year mean of 6.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1.
Marine and Petroleum Geology published 300 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 581. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2025), authors are most often from China (43.3%), United States (6.8%) and France (5.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Inactive — coverage ended 2026. 10 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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