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Mining Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wroclaw University of Technology.
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ISSN 2300-9586Verify ISSN ↗2353-5423Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wroclaw University of Technology
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 125 / 164 | 24th | Q4 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 192 / 244 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Mining Science is Q4 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 125 of 164) and Q4 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 192 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Mining Science 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 1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.174, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 18.
Mining Science is published by Wroclaw University of Technology. Its print ISSN is 2300-9586 and its online ISSN is 2353-5423.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Mining Science has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #112 of 156 Scopus journals in Geochemistry and Petrology.
Mining Science published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 38. 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 95 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Poland (36.5%), China (14.7%) and Ukraine (5.3%).
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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