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Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0038-0741Verify ISSN ↗1573-9279Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 178 / 244 | 27th | Q3 |
| Ocean Engineering | 90 / 123 | 27th | Q3 |
| Energy (all) | 59 / 79 | 25th | Q3 |
| Soil Science | 127 / 167 | 24th | Q4 |
| Water Science and Technology | 213 / 279 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering is Q3 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 178 of 244), Q3 in Ocean Engineering (rank 90 of 123) and Q3 in Energy (all) (rank 59 of 79), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Soil Mechanics and Foundation 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 27th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.243, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 25.
Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0038-0741 and its online ISSN is 1573-9279.
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.
Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering published 84 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (56.7%), Russia (29.4%) and India (4.6%). 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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