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Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics

Academia Sinica · China

ISSN1000-7598eISSN1000-7598
SJR Q1WOS ESCIScopus / SJRDOAJOpen Access
Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field
Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.
Q1
SJR · Scopus
Top 25% in field
Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ
SJR Scorei
0.745
H-Indexi
28
SNIPi
1.125
Total Worksi
7,302
Total Citationsi
19,632
2yr Mean Citednessi
1.83
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Engineering, Geological; Civil and Structural Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology; Soil Science.

General Information

Country / RegionChina
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published
Annual Volume~ 69 articles / year
StatusActive
Total Publications7,302
Publisher OrgAcademia Sinica
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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access
Peer ReviewDouble-blind
OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes
Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

9/11 · 82%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
Academia Sinica
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
1000-7598 / 1000-7598
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus, DOAJ
Peer review process documented?
Double-blind
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
Yes
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
DOAJ verified
Primary language documented?
English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published
Citations received
3
5
2016
2
5
2017
5
41
2018
2
1
2019
112
477
2020
84
257
2024
12
2
2025
9
1
2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Civil and Structural EngineeringQ1
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering GeologyQ2
Soil ScienceQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Engineering, Geological

Scopus Categories

Soil ScienceGeotechnical Engineering and Engineering GeologyCivil and Structural Engineering

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Geomechanics and Mining EngineeringCivil and Geotechnical Engineering ResearchSoil, Finite Element MethodsGeoscience and Mining TechnologyGrouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics

Frequently asked questions about Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics

Is Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics?

Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.83.

Is Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics?

Subject areas: Engineering, Geological; Civil and Structural Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology; Soil Science.

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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref