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Biodegradation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 0923-9820Verify ISSN ↗1572-9729Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 86 / 241 | 64th | Q2 |
| Pollution | 75 / 180 | 58th | Q2 |
| Microbiology | 99 / 194 | 49th | Q3 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 81 / 157 | 48th | Q3 |
| Bioengineering | 97 / 168 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.
Biodegradation is Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 86 of 241), Q2 in Pollution (rank 75 of 180) and Q3 in Microbiology (rank 99 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Biodegradation 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 5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.906, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 98.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,590 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.
Biodegradation is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 0923-9820 and its online ISSN is 1572-9729.
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.
Biodegradation has an h-index of 113 and a 2-year mean of 3.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
Biodegradation published 132 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (24.4%), China (15.9%) and Saudi Arabia (5.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 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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