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Chemosphere is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.1). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0045-6535Verify ISSN ↗1879-1298Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,010 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 6 / 725 | 99th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 5 / 157 | 97th | Q1 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 5 / 151 | 97th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 8 / 241 | 96th | Q1 |
| Pollution | 7 / 180 | 96th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 19 / 402 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.1.
Chemosphere is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 6 of 725), Q1 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 5 of 157) and Q1 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 5 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Chemosphere is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.1, quartile Q1, 99th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.648, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 353.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,010 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.
Chemosphere is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0045-6535 and its online ISSN is 1879-1298.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chemosphere has an h-index of 386 and a 2-year mean of 10.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Chemosphere published 761 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 3,938. 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 United States (11.3%), Brazil (10.8%) and Indonesia (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 124 retracted papers are recorded (2.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 36 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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