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Rock Mechanics Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2773-2304Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 10 / 333 | 97th | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 9 / 194 | 95th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 33 / 434 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 23 / 244 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.9.
Rock Mechanics Bulletin is Q1 in Geology (rank 10 of 333), Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 9 of 194) and Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 33 of 434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Rock Mechanics Bulletin is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 10.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.665, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. 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.
Rock Mechanics Bulletin is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2773-2304.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Rock Mechanics Bulletin has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 5.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Rock Mechanics Bulletin published 82 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (70.1%), United States (6.3%) and Canada (3.6%). 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. 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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