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Petroleum Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 0965-5441Verify ISSN ↗1555-6239Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 204 / 347 | 41st | Q3 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 100 / 164 | 39th | Q3 |
| Fuel Technology | 87 / 138 | 37th | Q3 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 178 / 270 | 34th | Q3 |
| Chemistry (all) | 268 / 402 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Petroleum Chemistry is Q3 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 204 of 347), Q3 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 100 of 164) and Q3 in Fuel Technology (rank 87 of 138), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Petroleum Chemistry 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.257, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 38.
Petroleum Chemistry is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0965-5441 and its online ISSN is 1555-6239.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Petroleum Chemistry has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 1.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #158 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
Petroleum Chemistry published 151 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 302. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (63.8%), Iraq (14.6%) and China (10.2%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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