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Developments in Environmental Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1). Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1474-8177Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pollution | 157 / 180 | 13th | Q4 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 133 / 151 | 12th | Q4 |
| Atmospheric Science | 141 / 160 | 12th | Q4 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 140 / 157 | 11th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present (also 2012–2013, 2007–2009, 2005, 2002–2003), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Developments in Environmental Science is Q4 in Pollution (rank 157 of 180), Q4 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 133 of 151) and Q4 in Atmospheric Science (rank 141 of 160), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Developments in Environmental Science 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 1, quartile Q4, 13th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.215, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 27.
Developments in Environmental Science is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 1474-8177.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Developments in Environmental Science has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 169 Scopus journals in Pollution.
Developments in Environmental Science published 74 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2007 with 175. 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.
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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