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Environmental Challenges is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.8), DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 46 / 432 | 89th | Q1 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 15 / 134 | 89th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 33 / 241 | 86th | Q1 |
| Pollution | 30 / 180 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 29 / 151 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.8.
Environmental Challenges is Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 46 of 432), Q1 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 15 of 134) and Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 33 of 241), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Environmental Challenges is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.8, quartile Q1, 89th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.342, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,140 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.
Environmental Challenges is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2667-0100.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Environmental Challenges has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 5.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 404 Scopus journals in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.
Environmental Challenges published 321 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 406. 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Thailand (9.4%), Indonesia (8.5%) and India (8.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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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