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Biochar is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 25.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 2524-7867Verify ISSN ↗2524-7972Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soil Science | 1 / 167 | 99th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 4 / 307 | 98th | Q1 |
| Pollution | 4 / 180 | 98th | Q1 |
| Biomaterials | 6 / 146 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 25.6.
Biochar is Q1 in Soil Science (rank 1 of 167), Q1 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 4 of 307) and Q1 in Pollution (rank 4 of 180), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Biochar 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 25.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.031, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 64.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,690 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.
Biochar is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 2524-7867 and its online ISSN is 2524-7972.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Biochar has an h-index of 79 and a 2-year mean of 18.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 25.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 159 Scopus journals in Soil Science.
Biochar published 143 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (63.8%), United Kingdom (5.4%) and United States (4.7%). 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.
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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