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Carbon Balance and Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1750-0680Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 26 / 194 | 86th | Q1 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 32 / 201 | 84th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 105 / 432 | 75th | Q1 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 46 / 134 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
Carbon Balance and Management is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 26 of 194), Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 32 of 201) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 105 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Carbon Balance and Management 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.607, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 56.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,890 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.
Carbon Balance and Management is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1750-0680.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Carbon Balance and Management has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 3.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Carbon Balance and Management published 88 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (66.3%), Saudi Arabia (2.6%) and United States (2.4%). 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.
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