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International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Minings Sciences

United Kingdom · Elsevier B.V.

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International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Minings Sciences

This journal is concerned with original research, new developments, site measurements and case studies in rock mechanics and rock engineering. It provides an international forum for the publication of high quality papers on the subject of rock mechanics and the application of roc...

ISSN: 1365-1609

Publisher: Elsevier B.V.

Category: Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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8,5 D1 Top 10%

7 of 171 journals in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

H-index · SJR 214 · 2,481

Acceptance rate pie_chart

20% Selective

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Publication cost (APC) payments

3.523 € Open Access

Non-OA path 0 €

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COP Index

8,5

D1 Top 10%

SJR Impact

2,481

H-index

214

Docs (year)

268

Docs 3y

790

Total refs

15506

Cites 3y

7081

Citable 3y

790

Cites/Doc 2y

8.06

Ref/Doc

57.86

Immediate OA

3523 €

Embargoed OA

NPD

Non OA / Submission

0 €

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Best articles by citations

Chalk production and effects of water weakening

Volume of ground motion and seismic hazard

Editorial

Dynamic elastic properties of crystalline rocks from south-west Sweden

Discrete feature network approaches for enhanced oil recovery

Development of an apparatus to study the gas permeability and acoustic emission characteristics of an outburst-prone sandstone as a function of stress

Determination of Schmidt rebound hardness consistency in granite

Deepwater shale swelling potential evaluation

Control System for Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM): A First Investigation Towards a Hybrid Control System

Continuous approach for coupled mechanical and hydraulic behavior of a fractured rock mass during hypothetical shaft sinking at Sellafield, UK

Constitutive behavior of reconsolidating crushed salt

Compressional waves guided between parallel fractures

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Comparison of seismic and explosive energy in five smooth blasting test rounds

2-D BEM analysis of anisotropic half-plane problems - application to rock mechanics

Burden calculation for partially changed blast design conditions

Breakage resistance of a granite using new testing devices

Attenuation anisotropy in shale at elevated confining pressures

Assessment of some semi-analytical models for non-linear modelling of borehole stresses

Assessing changes in the mechanical condition of rock masses using P-wave computerized tomography

Application of artificial neural networks to fracture analysis at the ?Ñspo HRL, Sweden: fracture sets classification

A stress calculation model for the 3D borehole slotter

A new approach to estimating geo-stresses from laboratory Kaiser effect measurements

A microstructure-based failure criterion for Aminadav dolomites

A hybridized displacement discontinuity method for mixed mode I-II-III loading

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International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Minings Sciences has a COP Index of 8,5 (D1), ranked 7 of 171 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology. SJR: 2,481.

Immediate OA APC is 3523 EUR. Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Minings Sciences is 20%.

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