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Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 35.7), 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 1064-3389Verify ISSN ↗1547-6537Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 1 / 279 | 99th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 1 / 241 | 99th | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 1 / 151 | 99th | Q1 |
| Pollution | 3 / 180 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 35.7.
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology is Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 1 of 279), Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 1 of 241) and Q1 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 1 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 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 35.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.829, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 169.
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1064-3389 and its online ISSN is 1547-6537.
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.
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology has an h-index of 193 and a 2-year mean of 13.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 35.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 118. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (51.9%), United States (9.6%) and South Korea (6.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 9 retracted papers are recorded (6.6 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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