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Petroleum is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2405-5816Verify ISSN ↗2405-6561Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 16 / 333 | 95th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 12 / 164 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 27 / 244 | 89th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 57 / 347 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Fuel Technology | 32 / 138 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.6.
Petroleum is Q1 in Geology (rank 16 of 333), Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 12 of 164) and Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 27 of 244), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Petroleum 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 9.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.919, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 53.
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.
Petroleum is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2405-5816 and its online ISSN is 2405-6561.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Petroleum has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 4.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Petroleum published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 76. 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 China (46.2%), Iran (9.8%) and Saudi Arabia (7.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (7.3 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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