Journal profile · Earth and Planetary Sciences-Geochemistry and Petrology
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
ISSN 0007-4802 · eISSN 2368-0261 · Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists · Canada · Quarterly
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology: subscription journal; community-reported acceptance: easy; 0 articles in 2025.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from December 2020 (Volume 68, Issue 4): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology is published by Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Geological Studies and Exploration, Geological formations and processes and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, together about 64.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The BCEG aims to be the journal of record for papers dealing with all aspects of energy geoscience, broadly conceived, with a particularly (though not exclusively) Canadian focus.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Earth and Planetary Sciences-Geochemistry and Petrology
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Geological Studies and ExplorationEarth and Planetary Sciences29.2%
- Geological formations and processesEarth and Planetary Sciences20.4%
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysisEngineering14.8%
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsEarth and Planetary Sciences11.8%
- Geological and Geophysical StudiesEarth and Planetary Sciences5.9%
- Geological and Geochemical AnalysisEarth and Planetary Sciences3.4%
- Geochemistry and Elemental AnalysisEarth and Planetary Sciences2.6%
- Geological Modeling and AnalysisEarth and Planetary Sciences2.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geochemistry and Petrology | Q3 | 75/128 | 41st |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | Q2 | 95/216 | 56th |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | Q2 | 46/95 | 52nd |
| Geology | Q2 | 96/235 | 59th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
Indexed in: no record yet.
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.32LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.72LetPub ·
- h-index
- 35LetPub ·
- h-index
- 69OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 697OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,360 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 283 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 706 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 843 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 803 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 1,105 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 1,283 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 7 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access
Full-text available from the year 1965 to current. GeoRef records only prior to that. Model summary
Full-text available from the year 1965 to current. GeoRef records only prior to that.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
- Country or region
- Canada
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- ISSN
- 0007-4802
- Electronic ISSN
- 2368-0261
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 68, Issue 4 (December 2020)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
Is Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology open access, and what is the APC?
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .