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Bioresource Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 20.7), 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 0960-8524Verify ISSN ↗1873-2976Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,880 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 11 / 241 | 95th | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 10 / 168 | 94th | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 10 / 151 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 26 / 345 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 20.7.
Bioresource Technology is Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 11 of 241), Q1 in Bioengineering (rank 10 of 168) and Q1 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 10 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Bioresource Technology 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 20.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.983, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 404.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,880 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.
Bioresource Technology is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0960-8524 and its online ISSN is 1873-2976.
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.
Bioresource Technology has an h-index of 438 and a 2-year mean of 7.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 20.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
Bioresource Technology published 1,699 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 2,364. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (72.5%), South Korea (3.5%) and United States (2.3%). 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. 149 retracted papers are recorded (4.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 7 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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