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Oil Shale is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Estonian Academy Publishers.
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ISSN 0208-189XVerify ISSN ↗1736-7492Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Estonian Academy Publishers
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 186 / 347 | 46th | Q3 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 132 / 244 | 46th | Q3 |
| Fuel Technology | 80 / 138 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present (also 1996–2004), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Oil Shale is Q3 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 186 of 347), Q3 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 132 of 244) and Q3 in Fuel Technology (rank 80 of 138), by CiteScore 2025.
Oil Shale 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.310, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$269 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.
Oil Shale is published by Estonian Academy Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0208-189X and its online ISSN is 1736-7492.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Oil Shale has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 1.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #139 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
Oil Shale published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 36. 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 54 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from China (42.6%), Estonia (34.9%) and Morocco (5.6%).
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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