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Petrological Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), DOAJ. Published by University of Isfahan.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2228-5210Verify ISSN ↗2322-2182Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Isfahan
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 175 / 194 | 10th | Q4 |
| Economic Geology | 49 / 52 | 6th | Q4 |
| Geology | 314 / 333 | 5th | Q4 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 155 / 164 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Petrological Journal is Q4 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 175 of 194), Q4 in Economic Geology (rank 49 of 52) and Q4 in Geology (rank 314 of 333), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Petrological Journal 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 10th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.229, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Petrological Journal is published by University of Isfahan. Its print ISSN is 2228-5210 and its online ISSN is 2322-2182.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Petrological Journal has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #166 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Petrological Journal published 2 papers in 2016; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 47. 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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