Oil Shale
ISSN 0208-189x · Estonian Academy Publishers · Estonia · active 1984–2026
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Publisher listed on Beall's archive (frozen 2017). Cross-check with DOAJ and Think.Check.Submit before submission.
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Metrics
“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.
Indexing & access
Access status: gold. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.
Scope
Frequently asked
Is Oil Shale a predatory journal?
Our screening flags Oil Shale as a possible predatory venue because its publisher appears on Beall's archive, which has been frozen since 2017. Treat this as a prompt to check carefully, not a verdict: verify against DOAJ and Think. Check. Submit before submitting.
Is Oil Shale indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, Oil Shale appears in: DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.
What is Oil Shale's impact?
Papers in Oil Shale are cited about 1.4 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 36. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.
Is Oil Shale open access?
Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.