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Petroleum Geoscience is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. Published by Geological Society of London.
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ISSN 1354-0793Verify ISSN ↗2041-496XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 98 / 333 | 70th | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 60 / 194 | 69th | Q2 |
| Economic Geology | 18 / 52 | 66th | Q2 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 58 / 164 | 64th | Q2 |
| Fuel Technology | 66 / 138 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Petroleum Geoscience is Q2 in Geology (rank 98 of 333), Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 60 of 194) and Q2 in Economic Geology (rank 18 of 52), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Petroleum Geoscience 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.435, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
Petroleum Geoscience is published by Geological Society of London. Its print ISSN is 1354-0793 and its online ISSN is 2041-496X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Petroleum Geoscience has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 2.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Petroleum Geoscience published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 50. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (25.6%), Brazil (9.9%) and United Kingdom (9.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 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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