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Cell Reports Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Cell Press.
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ISSN 2949-7906Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cell Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 108 / 491 | 78th | Q1 |
| Water Science and Technology | 82 / 279 | 70th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 96 / 307 | 68th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 151 / 345 | 56th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Cell Reports Sustainability is Q1 in Ecology (rank 108 of 491), Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 82 of 279) and Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 96 of 307), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cell Reports Sustainability is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.536, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,730 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.
Cell Reports Sustainability is published by Cell Press. Its ISSN is 2949-7906.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cell Reports Sustainability has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 4.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Cell Reports Sustainability published 137 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (30.4%), China (22.5%) and United Kingdom (6.3%).
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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