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Anthropocene Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 2053-0196Verify ISSN ↗2053-020XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 24 / 333 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Ecology | 42 / 491 | 91st | Q1 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 21 / 134 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.
Anthropocene Review is Q1 in Geology (rank 24 of 333), Q1 in Ecology (rank 42 of 491) and Q1 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 21 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Anthropocene Review is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.262, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,900 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.
Anthropocene Review is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 2053-0196 and its online ISSN is 2053-020X.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Anthropocene Review has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 1.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #93 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Anthropocene Review published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 43. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (18.3%), United States (10.4%) and Poland (8.8%).
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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