Journal profile · ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL
Soils and Rocks
ISSN 1980-9743 · eISSN 2675-5475 · Brazilian Association for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering AND Portuguese Geotechnical Society · Brazil
Soils and Rocks: CAS Zone 4 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.3 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 28 weeks (community reports); 88 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: Currently, the journal is not accepting manuscripts prepared using LaTeX. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Soils and Rocks is published by Brazilian Association for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering AND Portuguese Geotechnical Society and is in Zone 4 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures, together about 41.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Civil and Structural Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The aim of Soils and Rocks is to publish and disseminate basic and applied research in Geoengineering. Soils and Rocks publishes original and innovative peer reviewed articles, technical notes, case studies, reviews and discussions in the fields of Soil and Rock Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Geology and Geoenvironmental Engineering.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL
Editor-in-chief Renato Pinto da CunhaPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Geotechnical Engineering and Soil StabilizationEngineering18.4%
- Geotechnical Engineering and Soil MechanicsEngineering13.1%
- Geotechnical Engineering and Underground StructuresEngineering10.4%
- Soil and Unsaturated FlowEngineering8.3%
- Geotechnical Engineering and AnalysisEngineering7.3%
- Grouting, Rheology, and Soil MechanicsEngineering5.8%
- Landfill Environmental Impact StudiesEnvironmental Science5.4%
- Landslides and related hazardsEnvironmental Science4.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Geological | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Geological | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceSciELOPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.33LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.64LetPub ·
- h-index
- 19OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 76OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.8OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 30.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.99%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 72LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 741 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 58 | 58 | 18 |
| 2025 | 88 | 88 | 53 |
| 2024 | 50 | 50 | 86 |
| 2023 | 74 | 74 | 198 |
| 2022 | 63 | 63 | 285 |
| 2021 | 57 | 57 | 353 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 28 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 28 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–250 words
- Keywords
- 3–6
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted11, with length limits
- articleArticle An extensive and conclusive dissertation about a geotechnical topic, presenting original findings.Length not stated
- articlesSoils and Rocks publishes original and innovative peer reviewed articles, technical notes, case studies, reviews and discussions in the fields of Soil and Rock …Length not stated
- case studiesSoils and Rocks publishes original and innovative peer reviewed articles, technical notes, case studies, reviews and discussions in the fields of Soil and Rock …Length not stated
- case studyCase Study Report innovative ways to solve problems associated with design and construction of geotechnical projects. It also presents studies of the performanc…Length not stated
- discussionDiscussion The Journal’s policy encourages the submission of discussions only for breakthrough or highly cited papers.Length not stated
- discussionsSoils and Rocks publishes original and innovative peer reviewed articles, technical notes, case studies, reviews and discussions in the fields of Soil and Rock …Length not stated
- original articlesSoils and Rocks publishes original and innovative peer reviewed articles, technical notes, case studies, reviews and discussions in the fields of Soil and Rock …Length not stated
- review articlehould be between 4,000 and 8,000 words. Review articles should have up to 10,000 words. Technical Notes have a word count limit of 3,500 words. Dimain text ≤ 10,000 words
- reviewsSoils and Rocks publishes original and innovative peer reviewed articles, technical notes, case studies, reviews and discussions in the fields of Soil and Rock …Length not stated
- technical noterticles should have up to 10,000 words. Technical Notes have a word count limit of 3,500 words. Discussions have a word count limit of 1,000 words. Thesemain text ≤ 3,500 words
- technical notesSoils and Rocks publishes original and innovative peer reviewed articles, technical notes, case studies, reviews and discussions in the fields of Soil and Rock …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- AI use
GenAI cannot be an author; use must be declared in a dedicated section. Model summary
Soils and Rocks considers that at no time can GenAI tools be considered as the author or co-author of the work since authorship and co-authorship are exclusively attributed to human action.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest 4.4 - Declaration of interest
Authors are required to disclose conflicting interests that could inappropriately bias their work. For that end, a section entitled “Declaration of interest” should be included following any acknowledgments and prior to the "Authors´ contributions" section. In case of the absence of conflicting interests, the authors should still include a declaration of interest.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability 4.6 - Data availability
Data/code sharing encouraged; exceptions for legal/ethical issues. Model summary
A data availability statement must be included in any original research article. Authors should include information on where data supporting the findings reported in the article can be found, if applicable. Persistent hyperlink to make available archived datasets evaluated or produced during the study are to be included. “Data” is the minimal dataset necessary to understand, replicate and develop …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
COPE guidelines Model summary
Soils and Rocks adheres to COPE guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/) to ensure integrity in the editorial process.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Permissions required for reuse of third-party material. Model summary
The reuse of materials from other publications, such as figures or tables, must respect copyright restrictions imposed by the copyright owners.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Open Science; preprint deposit allowed with editor contact and consent form. Model summary
Soils and Rocks embraces the international Open Science program and is striving to meet all the recommendations. Authors are invited to deposit their submissions in reliable preprint servers.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review is single-blind or double-blind, chosen by authors. Model summary
Each manuscript is subjected to either a single-blind or double-blind peer-review process, as the authors choose.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism 5 - Plagiarism checking
Plagiarism screening via plagiarism checker on all submissions. Model summary
Soils and Rocks follows the ethics of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), of the Code of Ethics American Educational Research Association, the Code of Good Scientific Practice - FAPESP and the Council of Science Editors (CSE) concerning publication. Any material published in is in agreement with the SciELO Guidelines on Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication. Sub…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Accepts preprints Model summary
the journal accepts submissions that have been deposited as preprints.
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
- Brazilian Association for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering AND Portuguese Geotechnical Society
- Country or region
- Brazil
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1980-9743
- Electronic ISSN
- 2675-5475
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Soils and Rocks
What CAS zone is Soils and Rocks in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Soils and Rocks is in Zone 4 of Engineering, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Engineering, Geological. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Soils and Rocks?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.3 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2, h-index 19.
How long does peer review take at Soils and Rocks?
Authors report an average review time of about 28 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Soils and Rocks?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–250 words; Keywords: 3–6; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: Author–date; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Soils and Rocks?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Soils and Rocks is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and SciELO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Soils and Rocks open access, and what is the APC?
Soils and Rocks is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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: .