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Asia Pacific Sustainable Development Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), formerly ABDC B. Published by ESCAP.
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ISSN 2617-8400Verify ISSN ↗2617-8419Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ESCAP
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 339 / 345 | 1st | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 862 / 876 | 1st | Q4 |
| Health (social science) | 383 / 387 | 1st | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 749 / 755 | 0th | Q4 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 306 / 307 | 0th | Q4 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 431 / 432 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Asia Pacific Sustainable Development Journal is Q4 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 339 of 345), Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 862 of 876) and Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 383 of 387), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Asia Pacific Sustainable Development Journal is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4, 1st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Asia Pacific Sustainable Development Journal is published by ESCAP. Its print ISSN is 2617-8400 and its online ISSN is 2617-8419.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated B in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asia Pacific Sustainable Development Journal has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #286 of 304 Scopus journals in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.
Asia Pacific Sustainable Development Journal published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 32. 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.
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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