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Circular Economy and Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2730-597XVerify ISSN ↗2730-5988Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (all) | 42 / 249 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 104 / 345 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
Circular Economy and Sustainability is Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 42 of 249) and Q2 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 104 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Circular Economy and Sustainability 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 8.5, quartile Q1, 83rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.080, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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 and Sustainability is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2730-597X and its online ISSN is 2730-5988.
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.
Circular Economy and Sustainability has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 3.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 234 Scopus journals in Environmental Science (all).
Circular Economy and Sustainability published 229 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (17.4%), Indonesia (6.3%) and Finland (5.3%).
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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