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Chinese Journal of Environmental Law is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 2468-6034Verify ISSN ↗2468-6042Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 548 / 1162 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 337 / 432 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Chinese Journal of Environmental Law is Q2 in Law (rank 548 of 1162) and Q4 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 337 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Journal of Environmental Law 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.274, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Chinese Journal of Environmental Law is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2468-6034 and its online ISSN is 2468-6042.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Journal of Environmental Law has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #390 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Chinese Journal of Environmental Law published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 23. 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 71 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (27%), India (9.2%) and Australia (6.1%).
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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