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Emerging Contaminants is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2405-6642Verify ISSN ↗2405-6650Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 26 / 725 | 96th | Q1 |
| Toxicology | 8 / 131 | 94th | Q1 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 20 / 151 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.1.
Emerging Contaminants is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 26 of 725), Q1 in Toxicology (rank 8 of 131) and Q1 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 20 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Emerging Contaminants 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 11.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.901, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 53.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,100 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.
Emerging Contaminants is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2405-6642 and its online ISSN is 2405-6650.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Emerging Contaminants has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 9.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Emerging Contaminants published 121 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 128. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (58.5%), Bangladesh (3.4%) and Spain (2.7%). 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. 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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