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AIMS Environmental Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS ESCI. Published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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ISSN 2372-0344Verify ISSN ↗2372-0352Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Cost to publish: About US$300 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (all) | 107 / 249 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
AIMS Environmental Science is Q2 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 107 of 249), by CiteScore 2025.
AIMS Environmental Science is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.367, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$300 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.
AIMS Environmental Science is published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 2372-0344 and its online ISSN is 2372-0352.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
AIMS Environmental Science has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 3.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #72 of 234 Scopus journals in Environmental Science (all).
AIMS Environmental Science published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 52. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (23.2%), Indonesia (15.1%) and Malaysia (5.9%).
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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