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Soils and Rocks is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Associacao Brasileira de Mecanica dos Solos.
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ISSN 1980-9743Verify ISSN ↗2675-5475Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Associacao Brasileira de Mecanica dos Solos
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 150 / 244 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Soils and Rocks is Q3 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 150 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Soils and Rocks 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 2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.325, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
Soils and Rocks is published by Associacao Brasileira de Mecanica dos Solos. Its print ISSN is 1980-9743 and its online ISSN is 2675-5475.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Soils and Rocks has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #135 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
Soils and Rocks published 88 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 85 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (58.8%), Algeria (4.7%) and Portugal (4.5%). 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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