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Cleaner Water is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2950-2632Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 119 / 241 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Cleaner Water is Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 119 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Cleaner Water 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 3.1, quartile Q2, 50th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.953, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,230 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 Water is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2950-2632.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cleaner Water has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 4.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
Cleaner Water published 138 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 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (22.8%), Bangladesh (14.3%) and United States (5.8%).
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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