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Circular Economy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2773-1677Verify ISSN ↗2773-1685Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 9 / 307 | 97th | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 12 / 151 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 32 / 345 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.5.
Circular Economy is Q1 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 9 of 307), Q1 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 12 of 151) and Q1 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 32 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Circular Economy 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 17.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.534, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,680 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.
Circular Economy is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 2773-1677 and its online ISSN is 2773-1685.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Circular Economy has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 6.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 291 Scopus journals in Environmental Science (miscellaneous).
Circular Economy published 27 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 92 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (46.4%), United States (5.3%) and Italy (4.6%).
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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