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SPE Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
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ISSN 1086-055XVerify ISSN ↗1930-0220Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 70 / 244 | 71st | Q2 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 111 / 347 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1969–1973), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.3.
SPE Journal is Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 70 of 244) and Q2 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 111 of 347), by CiteScore 2025.
SPE Journal 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.606, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 171.
SPE Journal is published by Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Its print ISSN is 1086-055X and its online ISSN is 1930-0220.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
SPE Journal has an h-index of 139 and a 2-year mean of 3.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
SPE Journal published 497 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (68.8%), United States (12.5%) and Canada (4.1%). 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. 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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