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Compost Science and Utilization is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1065-657XVerify ISSN ↗2326-2397Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 372 / 491 | 24th | Q4 |
| Soil Science | 131 / 167 | 21st | Q4 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 126 / 151 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Compost Science and Utilization is Q4 in Ecology (rank 372 of 491), Q4 in Soil Science (rank 131 of 167) and Q4 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 126 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Compost Science and Utilization is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.246, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 61.
Compost Science and Utilization is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1065-657X and its online ISSN is 2326-2397.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Compost Science and Utilization has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 1.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #230 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Compost Science and Utilization published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 26. 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 67 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (13.4%), United States (13.2%) and Türkiye (11.3%).
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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