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Atmospheric Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1352-2310Verify ISSN ↗1873-2844Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,910 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Science | 27 / 160 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 50 / 249 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1986–1987, 1983, 1972–1981), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.4.
Atmospheric Environment is Q1 in Atmospheric Science (rank 27 of 160) and Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 50 of 249), by CiteScore 2025.
Atmospheric Environment 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 7.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.252, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 299.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,910 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.
Atmospheric Environment is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1352-2310 and its online ISSN is 1873-2844.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Atmospheric Environment has an h-index of 336 and a 2-year mean of 3.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 157 Scopus journals in Atmospheric Science.
Atmospheric Environment published 590 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 753. 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 78 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (44.3%), South Korea (5.8%) and United States (5.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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