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Ecological Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.4), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0921-8009Verify ISSN ↗1873-6106Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,730 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 41 / 755 | 94th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 17 / 249 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.4.
Ecological Economics is Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 41 of 755) and Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 17 of 249), by CiteScore 2025.
Ecological Economics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 12.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.906, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 279.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,730 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.
Ecological Economics is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0921-8009 and its online ISSN is 1873-6106.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other economics.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ecological Economics has an h-index of 334 and a 2-year mean of 6.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Ecological Economics published 321 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 413. 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 80 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (16.7%), Germany (12.2%) and France (10.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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