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Scientific Drilling is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Copernicus Publications.
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ISSN 1816-3459Verify ISSN ↗1816-8957Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 255 / 740 | 65th | Q2 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 127 / 347 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Scientific Drilling is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 255 of 740) and Q2 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 127 of 347), by CiteScore 2025.
Scientific Drilling 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.653, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
Scientific Drilling is published by Copernicus Publications. Its print ISSN is 1816-3459 and its online ISSN is 1816-8957.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Scientific Drilling has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 2.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #258 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Scientific Drilling published 3 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 15. 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 59 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (21.4%), United States (15%) and United Kingdom (7.9%).
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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