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Applied Ecology and Environmental Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Corvinus University of Budapest.
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ISSN 1589-1623Verify ISSN ↗1785-0037Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Corvinus University of Budapest
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 323 / 422 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 569 / 736 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 2003), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Applied Ecology and Environmental Research is Q4 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 323 of 422) and Q4 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 569 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 23rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.231, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 53.
Applied Ecology and Environmental Research is published by Corvinus University of Budapest. Its print ISSN is 1589-1623 and its online ISSN is 1785-0037.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Applied Ecology and Environmental Research has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 1.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #172 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Applied Ecology and Environmental Research published 638 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 1,052. 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 79 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (54.1%), Hungary (13.3%) and Serbia (4.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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