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Petroleum Exploration and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 1876-3804Verify ISSN ↗2096-4803Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 3 / 333 | 99th | Q1 |
| Economic Geology | 1 / 52 | 99th | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 4 / 244 | 98th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 3 / 164 | 98th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 20 / 347 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.2.
Petroleum Exploration and Development is Q1 in Geology (rank 3 of 333), Q1 in Economic Geology (rank 1 of 52) and Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 4 of 244), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Petroleum Exploration and Development 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 16.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.681, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 101.
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 Exploration and Development is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 1876-3804 and its online ISSN is 2096-4803.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Petroleum Exploration and Development has an h-index of 113 and a 2-year mean of 12.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Petroleum Exploration and Development published 121 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 121. 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 China (92.7%), United States (1.5%) and Russia (1.5%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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