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Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 1873-9318Verify ISSN ↗1873-9326Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Science | 48 / 160 | 70th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 133 / 432 | 69th | Q2 |
| Pollution | 65 / 180 | 64th | Q2 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 58 / 151 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.6.
Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health is Q2 in Atmospheric Science (rank 48 of 160), Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 133 of 432) and Q2 in Pollution (rank 65 of 180), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.781, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 81.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,590 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.
Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1873-9318 and its online ISSN is 1873-9326.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health has an h-index of 88 and a 2-year mean of 3.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 157 Scopus journals in Atmospheric Science.
Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health published 192 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 201. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (20.7%), India (18.4%) and South Korea (6.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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