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Arid Ecosystems is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 2079-0961Verify ISSN ↗2079-0988Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 349 / 491 | 29th | Q3 |
| Soil Science | 123 / 167 | 26th | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 541 / 736 | 26th | Q3 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 114 / 134 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Arid Ecosystems is Q3 in Ecology (rank 349 of 491), Q3 in Soil Science (rank 123 of 167) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 541 of 736), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Arid Ecosystems 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.298, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
Arid Ecosystems is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2079-0961 and its online ISSN is 2079-0988.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Arid Ecosystems has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #348 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Arid Ecosystems published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 64. 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 85 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Russia (83.5%), Uzbekistan (5.9%) and Algeria (3.5%). 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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