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Unconventional Resources is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2666-5190Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (all) | 62 / 249 | 75th | Q1 |
| Energy (all) | 26 / 79 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Unconventional Resources is Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 62 of 249) and Q2 in Energy (all) (rank 26 of 79), by CiteScore 2025.
Unconventional Resources 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.864, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Unconventional Resources is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2666-5190.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Unconventional Resources has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 3.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 234 Scopus journals in Environmental Science (all).
Unconventional Resources published 140 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (19.1%), India (8.9%) and Morocco (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (4.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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