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Atmospheric Pollution Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1309-1042Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Science | 28 / 160 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Pollution | 47 / 180 | 74th | Q2 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 43 / 151 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
Atmospheric Pollution Research is Q1 in Atmospheric Science (rank 28 of 160), Q2 in Pollution (rank 47 of 180) and Q2 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 43 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Atmospheric Pollution 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.041, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 84.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,570 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 Pollution Research is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 1309-1042.
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 Pollution Research has an h-index of 94 and a 2-year mean of 3.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 157 Scopus journals in Atmospheric Science.
Atmospheric Pollution Research published 418 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (42.6%), South Korea (7.2%) and United States (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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.
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