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Discover Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer Nature.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 317 / 876 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 149 / 307 | 51st | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 200 / 345 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | 65 / 106 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Discover Sustainability is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 317 of 876), Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 149 of 307) and Q3 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 200 of 345), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Discover Sustainability 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.815, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,390 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.
Discover Sustainability is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2662-9984.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discover Sustainability has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 4.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #59 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Discover Sustainability published 1,640 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (16.9%), Ethiopia (10.7%) and Vietnam (6.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 5 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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