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Challenges in Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Acadlore Publishing Services Limited.
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ISSN 2297-6477Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Acadlore Publishing Services Limited
Cost to publish: About US$323 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 67 / 231 | 71st | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 282 / 876 | 67th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 159 / 491 | 67th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 197 / 432 | 54th | Q2 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 79 / 134 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Challenges in Sustainability is Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 67 of 231), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 282 of 876) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 159 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Challenges in 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.524, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$323 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.
Challenges in Sustainability is published by Acadlore Publishing Services Limited. Its ISSN is 2297-6477.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Challenges in Sustainability has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 2.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Challenges in Sustainability published 48 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 77 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (20.8%), Vietnam (7.8%) and Türkiye (6.9%).
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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