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Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0007-4861Verify ISSN ↗1432-0800Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pollution | 67 / 180 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 60 / 151 | 60th | Q2 |
| Toxicology | 53 / 131 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1966–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.5.
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology is Q2 in Pollution (rank 67 of 180), Q2 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 60 of 151) and Q2 in Toxicology (rank 53 of 131), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.614, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 97.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,990 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.
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0007-4861 and its online ISSN is 1432-0800.
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.
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology has an h-index of 120 and a 2-year mean of 2.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 169 Scopus journals in Pollution.
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology published 179 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 353. 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 (22.2%), India (16.5%) and United States (7.2%).
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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