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Cleaner Environmental Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2666-7894Verify ISSN ↗
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 59 / 307 | 80th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 90 / 432 | 79th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 59 / 241 | 75th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 117 / 345 | 66th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
Cleaner Environmental Systems is Q1 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 59 of 307), Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 90 of 432) and Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 59 of 241), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cleaner Environmental Systems 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.143, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,910 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.
Cleaner Environmental Systems is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2666-7894.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cleaner Environmental Systems has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 4.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 291 Scopus journals in Environmental Science (miscellaneous).
Cleaner Environmental Systems published 141 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Germany (11.1%), Italy (7.5%) and China (6.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (2 per 1,000 papers). 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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