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Rock and Mineral Analysis is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), DOAJ. Published by Science China Press.
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ISSN 0254-5357Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science China Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 117 / 164 | 28th | Q3 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 180 / 244 | 26th | Q3 |
| Analytical Chemistry | 138 / 160 | 14th | Q4 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 136 / 157 | 13th | 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 Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Rock and Mineral Analysis is Q3 in Geochemistry and Petrology (rank 117 of 164), Q3 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 180 of 244) and Q4 in Analytical Chemistry (rank 138 of 160), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Rock and Mineral Analysis 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 1.3, quartile Q3, 28th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.223, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 14.
Rock and Mineral Analysis is published by Science China Press. Its ISSN is 0254-5357.
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.
Rock and Mineral Analysis has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #136 of 156 Scopus journals in Geochemistry and Petrology.
Rock and Mineral Analysis published 15 papers in 2015; its busiest recent year was 2010 with 142. 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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