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Mining is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2673-6489Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 85 / 333 | 74th | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 52 / 194 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 99 / 300 | 67th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 120 / 307 | 61st | 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 4.5.
Mining is Q2 in Geology (rank 85 of 333), Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 52 of 194) and Q2 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 99 of 300), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Mining 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.609, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,207 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.
Mining is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2673-6489.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Mining has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 2.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Mining published 84 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (14.3%), Russia (12.9%) and China (9.6%).
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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