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Energy, Sustainability and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Springer Science + Business Media.
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ISSN 2192-0567Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 13 / 314 | 96th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 50 / 347 | 85th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 75 / 345 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.3.
Energy, Sustainability and Society is Q1 in Development (rank 13 of 314), Q1 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 50 of 347) and Q1 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 75 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Energy, Sustainability and Society 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 10.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.301, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 55.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,190 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.
Energy, Sustainability and Society is published by Springer Science + Business Media. Its ISSN is 2192-0567.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Energy, Sustainability and Society has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 6.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Energy, Sustainability and Society published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 73. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (29.6%), Sweden (8.4%) and Austria (6.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.9 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.
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