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Applied and Environmental Soil Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1687-7667Verify ISSN ↗1687-7675Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 34 / 184 | 81st | Q1 |
| Soil Science | 45 / 167 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Applied and Environmental Soil Science is Q1 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 34 of 184) and Q2 in Soil Science (rank 45 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Applied and Environmental Soil 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.655, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,000 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.
Applied and Environmental Soil Science is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1687-7667 and its online ISSN is 1687-7675.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Applied and Environmental Soil Science has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 2.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Applied and Environmental Soil Science published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 63. 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 88 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Ethiopia (36%), Nepal (6.8%) and Bangladesh (5.1%).
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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