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Aerosol and Air Quality Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 1680-8584Verify ISSN ↗2071-1409Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pollution | 61 / 180 | 66th | Q2 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 66 / 157 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.9.
Aerosol and Air Quality Research is Q2 in Pollution (rank 61 of 180) and Q2 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 66 of 157), by CiteScore 2025.
Aerosol and Air Quality Research is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.760, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 89.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,090 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Aerosol and Air Quality Research is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1680-8584 and its online ISSN is 2071-1409.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Aerosol and Air Quality Research has an h-index of 100 and a 2-year mean of 3.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 169 Scopus journals in Pollution.
Aerosol and Air Quality Research published 81 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 289. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (21.9%), Taiwan (11.5%) and India (10.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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