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Cleaner Production Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2666-7916Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 62 / 425 | 85th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 40 / 249 | 84th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 109 / 506 | 78th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 98 / 345 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
Cleaner Production Letters is Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 62 of 425), Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 40 of 249) and Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 109 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cleaner Production Letters 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.028, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,270 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 Production Letters is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2666-7916.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cleaner Production Letters has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 5.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Cleaner Production Letters published 37 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 84 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (7.7%), Netherlands (5.8%) and Italy (5.2%).
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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