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Petroleum Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 1672-5107Verify ISSN ↗1995-8226Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geophysics | 3 / 183 | 98th | Q1 |
| Geology | 7 / 333 | 98th | Q1 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 7 / 164 | 96th | Q1 |
| Economic Geology | 4 / 52 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 18 / 244 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 40 / 347 | 88th | Q1 |
| Fuel Technology | 25 / 138 | 82nd | 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 11.3.
Petroleum Science is Q1 in Geophysics (rank 3 of 183), Q1 in Geology (rank 7 of 333) and Q1 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 7 of 164), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Petroleum Science 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 11.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.259, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 71.
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 Science is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 1672-5107 and its online ISSN is 1995-8226.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Petroleum Science has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 4.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 159 Scopus journals in Geophysics.
Petroleum Science published 411 papers in 2025. 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 75 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (89.3%), Saudi Arabia (2%) and Canada (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. 7 retracted papers are recorded (2.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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