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Petroleum Science
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Petroleum Science

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 137 53 106 24
Engineering and Technology 212 95 199 30
Chemistry 465 62 81 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 289
Documents by Best Scientists*: 424
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 61
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.219
Impact Factor: 6.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Petroleum Science?

The main points discussed in Petroleum Science deals with Petroleum engineering, Chemical engineering, Mineral resource classification, Geochemistry and Structural basin. The Petroleum engineering works featured in Petroleum Science incorporate elements from Fossil fuel, Drilling and Permeability (earth sciences). The Permeability (earth sciences) research presented falls under the domain of Geotechnical engineering.

While work presented in Petroleum Science provided substantial information on Chemical engineering, it also covered topics in Catalysis, Adsorption and Surface tension. Mineral resource classification research featured in Petroleum Science incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Tectonics, Oil shale, Petrology and Source rock. Some problems in Geochemistry that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Sedimentary depositional environment and Carbonate.

Petroleum Science tackles the study of Structural basin which is crucial to the subjects of Geomorphology and Paleontology.

  • Petroleum engineering (16.21%)
  • Chemical engineering (12.80%)
  • Mineral resource classification (12.63%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Surfactant induced reservoir wettability alteration: Recent theoretical and experimental advances in enhanced oil recovery (100 citations)
  • Review of surfactant-assisted chemical enhanced oil recovery for carbonate reservoirs: challenges and future perspectives (100 citations)
  • Emission and performance analysis of a diesel engine burning cashew nut shell oil bio diesel mixed with hexanol (76 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Petroleum Science:

The published articles facilitate discussions on Chemical engineering, Petroleum engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Mineral resource classification and Enhanced oil recovery. The journal papers explore research in Chromatography and overlapping concepts in Asphaltene to expand the discourse in Chemical engineering. In addition to Petroleum engineering research, the most cited papers aim to explore topics under Petroleum, Computer simulation and Natural gas.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Organic chemistry
  • Composite material
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal facilitates discussions on Chemical engineering, Oil shale, Mechanics, Petroleum engineering and Fracture (geology). Most of the works presented in Petroleum Science deals with Chemical engineering but it intersects with the subject of Adsorption. Petroleum Science holds forums on Oil shale that merges themes from other disciplines such as Kerogen, Geochemistry and Mineralogy.

Petroleum Science links adjacent topics like Petroleum engineering with Permeability (earth sciences). The concepts on Fracture (geology) presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Porosity and Anisotropy. It investigates Pulmonary surfactant research which frequently intersects with Surface tension.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The effect of nanoparticles on reservoir wettability alteration: a critical review (15 citations)
  • Water shutoff and conformance improvement: an introduction (11 citations)
  • Pore structure characterization and its effect on methane adsorption in shale kerogen (8 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Petroleum Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Xiongqi Pang (19 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Deli Gao (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Yingchang Cao (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Haijun Yang (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Luofu Liu (9 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Petroleum Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • China University of Petroleum (616 papers) published 76 papers at the last edition, 27 more than at the previous edition,
  • PetroChina (158 papers) published 20 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Sinopec (111 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • China National Petroleum Corporation (78 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • Southwest Petroleum University (56 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 6.04% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 69.29% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.86% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 8.57% of all publications and 14.29% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Advances in enhanced oil recovery technologies for low permeability reservoirs

    Unknown

    (2022)
    204 Citations
  • The effect of nanoparticles on reservoir wettability alteration: a critical review

    Unknown

    (2020)
    188 Citations
  • Application of nanomaterial for enhanced oil recovery

    Tuo Liang;Ji-Rui Hou;Ming Qu;Jia-Xin Xi

    (2021)
    120 Citations
  • Water shutoff and conformance improvement: an introduction

    Randall S. Seright;Bergit Brattekås

    (2021)
    118 Citations
  • Active phase morphology engineering of NiMo/Al2O3 through La introduction for boosting hydrodesulfurization of 4,6-DMDBT

    (2022)
    72 Citations
  • Determination of shale macroscale modulus based on microscale measurement: A case study concerning multiscale mechanical characteristics

    Yong Li;Jian-Qi Chen;Jiang-Hao Yang;Ji-Shan Liu

    (2021)
    67 Citations
  • Experimental investigation into l -Arg and l -Cys eco-friendly surfactants in enhanced oil recovery by considering IFT reduction and wettability alteration

    Hamed Foroughi Asl;Ghasem Zargar;Abbas Khaksar Manshad;Mohammad Ali Takassi

    (2020)
    67 Citations
  • Microscale crack propagation in shale samples using focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy and three-dimensional numerical modeling

    (2022)
    66 Citations
  • Polymer flooding: Current status and future directions

    (2023)
    66 Citations

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