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Natural Gas Industry B is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2352-8540Verify ISSN ↗2352-8559Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 9 / 333 | 97th | Q1 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 14 / 397 | 96th | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 21 / 244 | 91st | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 44 / 347 | 87th | Q1 |
| Process Chemistry and Technology | 14 / 84 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.
Natural Gas Industry B is Q1 in Geology (rank 9 of 333), Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 14 of 397) and Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 21 of 244), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Natural Gas Industry B 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 11, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.269, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
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.
Natural Gas Industry B is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2352-8540 and its online ISSN is 2352-8559.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Natural Gas Industry B has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 5.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Natural Gas Industry B published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 86. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (85.1%), Canada (3.2%) and Russia (2%). 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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