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Cleaner Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 23.4), 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 Ltd.
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Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 4 / 241 | 98th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 11 / 408 | 97th | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 5 / 151 | 96th | Q1 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 7 / 168 | 96th | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 23.4.
Cleaner Materials is Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 4 of 241), Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 11 of 408) and Q1 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 5 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cleaner Materials 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 23.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.939, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 46.
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$1,710 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 Materials is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2772-3976.
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.
Cleaner Materials has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 13.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 23.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
Cleaner Materials published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 127. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (27.3%), United States (14.4%) and Hong Kong SAR China (6.7%).
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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