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Petroleum Processing and Petrochemicals is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, SINOPEC.
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ISSN 1005-2399Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, SINOPEC
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 298 / 347 | 14th | Q4 |
| Process Chemistry and Technology | 76 / 84 | 10th | Q4 |
| Fuel Technology | 129 / 138 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Petroleum Processing and Petrochemicals is Q4 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 298 of 347), Q4 in Process Chemistry and Technology (rank 76 of 84) and Q4 in Fuel Technology (rank 129 of 138), by CiteScore 2025.
Petroleum Processing and Petrochemicals is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4, 14th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.120, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
Petroleum Processing and Petrochemicals is published by Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, SINOPEC. Its ISSN is 1005-2399.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Petroleum Processing and Petrochemicals has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #222 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
Petroleum Processing and Petrochemicals published 32 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 58. 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.
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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