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Environment, Development and Sustainability is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 1387-585XVerify ISSN ↗1573-2975Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 29 / 876 | 96th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 45 / 755 | 94th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 37 / 432 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.6.
Environment, Development and Sustainability is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 29 of 876), Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 45 of 755) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 37 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Environment, Development and Sustainability 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 11.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.972, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 112.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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.
Environment, Development and Sustainability is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1387-585X and its online ISSN is 1573-2975.
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.
Environment, Development and Sustainability has an h-index of 137 and a 2-year mean of 4.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Environment, Development and Sustainability published 1,279 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 1,552. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (65.2%), India (9.4%) and Saudi Arabia (2.4%). 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. 19 retracted papers are recorded (2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 21 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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