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Ecological Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0925-8574Verify ISSN ↗1872-6992Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,910 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 17 / 231 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 60 / 432 | 86th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 45 / 241 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.1.
Ecological Engineering is Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 17 of 231), Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 60 of 432) and Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 45 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Ecological Engineering 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 9.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.198, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 181.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,910 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 Engineering is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0925-8574 and its online ISSN is 1872-6992.
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.
Ecological Engineering has an h-index of 196 and a 2-year mean of 4.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Ecological Engineering published 301 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 497. 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 China (43.6%), United States (9.6%) and Italy (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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