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Ambio is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.6), 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 0044-7447Verify ISSN ↗1654-7209Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 20 / 876 | 97th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 19 / 491 | 96th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 21 / 157 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.6.
Ambio is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 20 of 876), Q1 in Ecology (rank 19 of 491) and Q1 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 21 of 157), by CiteScore 2025.
Ambio 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 13.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.904, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 171.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,490 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.
Ambio is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 0044-7447 and its online ISSN is 1654-7209.
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.
Ambio has an h-index of 197 and a 2-year mean of 4.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Ambio published 212 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 246. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Finland (12.6%), Sweden (12%) and United Kingdom (11.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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