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SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2509-3126Verify ISSN ↗2509-3134Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 211 / 244 | 13th | Q4 |
| Fuel Technology | 120 / 138 | 13th | Q4 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 260 / 300 | 13th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering is Q4 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 211 of 244), Q4 in Fuel Technology (rank 120 of 138) and Q4 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 260 of 300), by CiteScore 2025.
SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4, 13th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2509-3126 and its online ISSN is 2509-3134.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #167 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 41. 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.
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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