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Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0723-2632Verify ISSN ↗1434-453XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 6 / 333 | 98th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 29 / 434 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 17 / 244 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.6.
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering is Q1 in Geology (rank 6 of 333), Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 29 of 434) and Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 17 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 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 11.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.803, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 166.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,990 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0723-2632 and its online ISSN is 1434-453X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering has an h-index of 177 and a 2-year mean of 6.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering published 853 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (72.3%), Australia (5.1%) and United States (5.1%). 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 (1 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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