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Underground Space (new) is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2096-2754Verify ISSN ↗2467-9674Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 5 / 244 | 98th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 9 / 434 | 98th | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 8 / 258 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.8.
Underground Space (new) is Q1 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 5 of 244), Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 9 of 434) and Q1 in Building and Construction (rank 8 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Underground Space (new) 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 15.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.095, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
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Underground Space (new) is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2096-2754 and its online ISSN is 2467-9674.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Underground Space (new) has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 8.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 211 Scopus journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology.
Underground Space (new) published 121 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 130. 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 90 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (83%), Hong Kong SAR China (3.7%) and Australia (2.2%). 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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